What's the difference between ethnicity and race?

sometimes ppl say “white or American american” on both..

Answer #1

Ethnicity is not just a person’s race, it’s about tradition, behavior, customs, where you come from, and celebrating the traditions and ideas that are part of that region.

Race is your biologically engineered features i.e skin color, skin tone, eye color, hair color, and tendency toward developing certain diseases. It is not something that can be changed, it does not have customs or learned behavior.

This website explains the difference between ethnicity and race very well, check it out - http://funadvice.com/r/bh0iv2o9fpp

Answer #2

That website is also my source for this answer.

Answer #3

Uhm… OK, let’s find a clear example. There’s an Infant. Let’s say a Filipino. His parents move to Russia. Then the parents get killed in a car accident. No one knows whether there are still any living relatives, so the boy gets adopted into a Russian-Mongolian family and grows up just like the kids of the same family.

Now, his race is still “Filipino”. But his ethnicity should be Russian-Mongolian.

Answer #4

American american? Who exactly is stupid enough to say that? Surely no one who is caucasian is idiotic enough (given that caucasians originated from europe and are in no way american american). Oh and race is really a false concept that is made up. Biologists agree that there is not really such a thing as race.

Answer #5

I MEANT AFRICAN AMERICAN..whats ur point ty? is this what u do, sit here and correct ppl if they make a tiny mistake..this isn’t english, its a public site and name calling is uncalled 4…

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