RE: A question about race and double standards in Humans
September 23, 2015 at 3:47 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2015 at 3:48 pm by Regina.)
Race and ethnicity are used interchangeably too much in some cases I think - that's how in America white people who have 100% European ancestry can be regarded as "a minority" just because they have a Spanish surname. Being "mixed white and Puerto Rican" suddenly makes you mixed race.
I tend to think of it as race being to do with physical features and continent of ancestral origin, while ethnicity is your culture. Race is pretty set in stone while there is some flexibility (limited in some cases) for people to assimilate into a different ethnicity.
I tend to think of it as race being to do with physical features and continent of ancestral origin, while ethnicity is your culture. Race is pretty set in stone while there is some flexibility (limited in some cases) for people to assimilate into a different ethnicity.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
