BIOL 1001 Chapter : CH 2 OUTLINE
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Racial-ethnic groups: definition of race is fluid. We tend to think of race as the color of our skin & physical characteristics. However, those change over time: race is a social construct, time and history matter, census gives you opportunity to choose different races. With increasing diversity, we don"t all fit into one single race: ethnic group- more difficult to define than race. People who think of themselves as distinct from others bc of a common ancestry, shared culture. It"s about the power of others and the reactions of groups with each other. Us who comes from or is descended from people who came from an asian country (from. China to pakistan to hawaii: emergence of pan-nationalities. Hispanics, but not necessarily the same race (puerto rican marrying mexican): whiteness as ethnicity, whites make up majority group in us population - about 72% see themselves as non-
