1. Who are we...Who are we not?

2. Do you remember this from “Culture on the Move?”
Keep clicking until you see the migration to South America!

3. How did this movement of humans help to create such variety among our species?

4. Keep clicking until you see the Aborigines!

5. How did the settlement of humans help to create such variety among our species?

6. What do the following terms mean to you?
Race
Ethnicity
Nationality
Nation
State
Nation-state
Stateless Nation

7. This is what one dictionary says!

8. A family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock B: a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics
Race

9. A large group of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background
Ethnicity

10. A people having a common origin, tradition, and language and capable of forming or actually constituting a nation-state B: a legal relationship involving allegiance on the part of an individual and usually protection on the part of the state
Nationality

11. A community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government
Nation

12. A politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory; especially : one that is sovereign B : the political organization of such a body of people C : a government or politically organized society having a particular character
State

13. A form of political organization under which a relatively homogeneous people inhabits a sovereign state; especially : a state containing one as opposed to several nationalities
Nation-State

14. Stateless Nation has no dictionary definition… What do you think it should be?

15. What do race, ethncicity, and nationality have in common
What do race, ethncicity, and nationality have in common? What is different?
Are you confused yet?

16. Here are some more terms specifically associated with race
Here are some more terms specifically associated with race. Keep track of how many you have ever heard of!

17. Humans:
Bi-pedal
African origin
Caucasoid
Mongoloid
Negroid
Mullato
Zambo
Mestizo
Again…think about the movement and settlement of humans as these terms appear!

18. Why have many of these terms become obsolete?

19. Then why are we still so concerned with them?

20. Why does VBCPS collect this data?

21. *Regardless of federal requirements!
Now I challenge you… …to create the most appropriate form that will collect cultural data that can be helpful in the decision making processes within VBCPS!
*Regardless of federal requirements!
HAVE FUN!