What is the difference between race and ethnicity ?

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What is the difference between race and ethnicity give an example of both and explain why it is either a race or ethnic group

What is the relationship between minority groups and poverty rates? are there in general higher rates of poverty among minorities? Why do you think that might be, and what can be done to lower the poverty rate among minority groups?

The civil rights movement of the 1960’s did alot to ensure equality for minority groups. In what ways though is there still discrimination towards minority groups in the United States? What might fuel this discrimination?

I am asking these questions to help me study for an upcoming test

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  • 1. Race is a social category or social construction on the basis of certain characteristics, some biological, that have been assigned social importance in the society. It is not the biological characteristics that define racial groups, but how groups have been categorized historically and socially. That is, society assigns people to racial categories such as Black, White, and so on, not because of science, logic, or fact, but because of social experience. Ethnicity relates to cultural factors such as nationality, culture, ancestry, language and beliefs.

    Race can be used to describe other elements of biological and regional differences. For instance, you can be born Jewish (which is usually referred to as a religion), but it does not mean that you have embraced the Jewish customs or religious beliefs. In such cases, the same term can be used to describe either ethnicity or race.

    2. African American children are three times more likely to live in poverty than Caucasian children. Although the income of Asian American families is often markedly above other minorities, these families also often have four to five family members working. Minorities are more likely to receive high-cost mortgages: African Americans (53 percent) and Latinos (43 percent), in comparison to Caucasians (18 percent) (Logan,28). African American men working full time earn 72 percent of the average earnings of comparable Caucasian men and 85 percent of the earnings of Caucasian women (Rodgers, 28). African Americans and Latinos are more likely to attend high-poverty schools than Asian Americans and Caucasians (National Center for Education Statistics, 27).high-achieving African American students may be exposed to less rigorous curriculums, attend schools with fewer resources, and have teachers who expect less of them academically than they expect of similarly situated Caucasian students (Azzam, 28).

    The last article in the links below address your last two questions, causes of discrimination today. I haven’t finished it yet, but I thought I’d post since you’re questions been here for a couple days already.

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