Pg. 218 What is the difference between race and ethnicity? Chapter 7 Ethnicity Pg. 218 What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

Cultural Identity: Race and Ethnicity Culture groups Few or many characteristics (language, religion, race, food, etc.) Subculture: a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture, often maintaining some of its founding principles. Races Humans of a specific group Most biologists do not recognize race as a biologically valid classification, Because of the vagueness in classification Ethnic groups Ethnocentrism: belief that one’s ethnicity is superior

Race in the U.S. Genetic mixing is so common and complete that most geographers dismiss race as a category since it can not be clearly tied to place.

What is ethnicity? How is it different than race? 1. Ethnicity is an identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth. Thus: customs, cultural characteristics, language, common history, homeland, etc... 2. Race is a a socially created system of rules about who belongs and who does not belong to a particular group based on actual or perceived commonality of origin, race, culture. This notion is clearly tied to place. Turkish Armenian Puerto Rican Chinese Thai Japanese Mongolian Kazakh

Nationalism Helps create national unity Can be very dangerous Can breed intolerance of difference and others

Why are their racial issues in 2016?

Get out your textbook and read and take notes on the topic your name is next to. You will then explain it to the class. Centripetal Force pg. 232 Centrifugal Force pg. 232 Nation-state Pg. 231 White Flight pg. 228 Blockbusting pg. 228 Multi-ethnic pg. 232 Multinational pg. 232

Centripetal & Centrifugal Force pg. 232 Nation-state Pg. 231 White Flight pg. 228

Blockbusting pg. 228 Multi-ethnic vs. multinational pg. 232

Centripetal Force Brings people TOGETHER. Centripetal Force is what holds you in when you are riding a roller coaster… it brings you close to the coaster and holds you together with the rest of the riders in the coaster. How is ethnicity a centripetal force in the United States?

Centrifugal Force. Pulls people APART. Your washing machine is a huge centrifuge. As it spins the water gets thrown out of the clothes and onto the side of the washer where it is drained away. How is ethnicity a centrifugal force in the United States?

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Let’s read over the United Nations Universal Declaration. As we read think about the following: Does it remind you of any other documents? Do you see any problems with enforcing it? http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

Discussion Questions How is the process of globalization, both economic and culture, changing perceptions of race? Are we headed towards one world culture and one world ethnicity? Can you give examples to make your argument? Is ethnic identity decreasing in the U.S. in the face of globalization of the media and cultures? Is the situation different in other parts of the world? Next: Apartheid Reading and “Human Rights Video”