1. Race v. Ethnicity

2. What the difference? Race
Category of people who share inherited physical characteristics
Perceived by others as being a distinct group

3. Historically, there were three categories of race:
Caucasoid (whites)
Are characterized by fair skin and straight or wavy hair
Mongoloid (Asians)
Are identified by yellowish or brownish skin and by distinctive folds on their eyelids
Negroid (blacks)
Distinguished by dark skin and tightly curled hair

4. Does everyone fit into one of these races?

5. Ethnicity Ethnic group
Set of cultural characteristics that distinguishes one group from another group
Ethnic group
People who share a common cultural background and a common sense of identity

6. Ethnicity and race refer to two different sets of characteristics.
Ethnicity is cultural; whereas race is physical
Although, some ethnic groups are racially distinct.

7. Minority Group
Category of people who share physical characteristics or cultural practices that result in the group being denied equal treatment
Types include:
Racial
Ethnic
Gender
Religious