This video is so good, a lot of people think that race is the same as ethnicity. This video give a good explanation about the difference of race and ethnicity.

@MariaGeorge

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am glad that this video helped explain the difference between the terms.

i loved this analogy with jelly beans very understandable i showed this to my students today in class I think they understood

@MariaGeorge

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing with your students!

That's how one should explain, just loved your analogy with jelly

What a helpful video! This is such a good and quick way to explain the concepts of race, ethnicity, and culture to both children and adults!

Race is a concept with almost no biological value in view of the genomic similarity between different human groups, but it is still useful with regard to establishing the effects that the environment exerts on natural selection and so-called geographic characteristics of different peoples, no more than that.

@angelicadayanafernandez1525

2 жыл бұрын

Stfu with this whole "race is a social construct" like what else is a social construct gender

@Elitecommando501

2 жыл бұрын

@@angelicadayanafernandez1525 you didn’t understand lol

@squidwardsthirdtentacle1198

2 жыл бұрын

@@angelicadayanafernandez1525 uhh...yeh, gender is also a social construct. *But* sex isn't a social construct (people often get the two confused)

I grew up not knowing about race or ethnicity. We were all considered mixed and our nationality is our culture and ethnicity. Until I moved to the US I found out I had to be cathegorized based on my race, and cannot even pick the right option. I am white south american, but you can only be either latin/hispanic or white. It is weird, for the rest I say my country and they know will understand my culture. In the US I am just latin, they really confuse me with this imposed concepts lol

@stevenperrin417

9 ай бұрын

That does sound confusing. And I don't know the context of your experience, but I do know that on general job applications, at least in the southern states of the United States of America, for example, it will give the option of "other". Then you're able to say what you have just said. I hope the opportunity arises so that you can explain to others that you can't be simply categorized as easily as others. Peace.

This video is about to go viral

Thank you for making it simple. I was always confused n not sure about ethnicity.

10/10 explanation I needed this for my Social Studies I'm also Asian, A proud Filipino!

This is very helpful for my lessons. Thank you very much!

This is where sociology meets anthropology. Anthropologists talk about the racial and ethnic categories that are socially constructed, this says an anthropologist who agrees with what is referred to in the video that society is used to separating itself by colors and customs. You say that this comes from the culture but an anthropologist looks at this from the ethnic side since this comes from the education and the behavior that they teach each one. his point is also already good since society is carried away by the ancestor culture and the stories of its families.

Thank you for this, it was exactly what I was looking for to show my students as a short, understandable introduction.

@MariaGeorge

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am glad my video could help you with your students!

Love it. Thank you so much

This helped so much! Thanks!

Thank you SO much for this. Signed, struggling with my Anthro final 😂

Thank you! I’m taking state exam to be a cop this morning. And I really couldn’t grasp this concept till now, thank you!

@MariaGeorge

Жыл бұрын

So glad my video helped you. Hope you did well on your exam!

@mrs_tink

Жыл бұрын

@@MariaGeorge I passed, I’m a peace officer!!! Thank you!!!

I think it's sad that people want to separate people just based on the way they look outside. To me it don't matter about the outside.I mean people have different hair color and different eye color. I grew up being taught to see all human beings as human beings. It's so sad that most people are like oh no see me as a Color not as a human that to me is sad and I'm called a racist because I choose to see human beings as human beings. What world huh. Peace to the peaceful. ✌️

Race is somewhat of a social construct, but ethnicity is even more of a social construct.

Thank you!

ethnicity and culture is so hard to explain hahahah, Race is the easiest. In layman's its basically how we perceive similarity in "look". Race is a social construct and not based on scientific tested hypothesis. Although these looks are seen as "consequence of heredity", the idea of differences is only a 'human construct'. Because, we are more similar than we are different. Genetically speaking we are the same species: homo sapiens. As long as you can procreate with another "subgroup" (this is the simplest explanation for genetic similarity). Im not sure but I know is that we are similar to almost 99.99 percent. Our difference phenotypic expression is an effect of adaptation. The issue with race is that certain groups perceive these "racial" attributes as the cause of behavior (effect). Which again the difference is that we must differentiate biological transmission of traits from socio-cultural codes passing. They are not the same things. Like how the luck of one raise is also based on their genetic makeup when in fact these feats of luck is also based on domination and exploitation in the expense of other's toiling. However, regardless of this fact given that it is used as an excuse or white people to discount race as a legitimate concept, we need to realize that the concept of race especially perceived by either the dominant class and neuters' part has real life consequences such as the slave trade in the world and also the holocaust where almost half of the Jewish population was wiped out. Therefore, in this context, the privilege's race perception have real world consequences.

@angelicadayanafernandez1525

2 жыл бұрын

Race is like a breed for the most part, exept at least animals aren't breedist

I immediately subscribed.

Cool Video!

Wow I finally understand thank you

Though a culture can have members from multiple races or ethnicities, culture can be also part of the races or enthicities. The cultural flavor will always be impacted by the race/ethnicity. Culturally even though white, black or Asian are all American's culture each group's version of what it is to be American will be different. Genetics impacts behaviour.

Hey, thank you very much for this valuable share. Would you also help us in differentiating:- culture, tradition, community, tribe etc.

@MariaGeorge

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad this video helped you. Culture is about lifestyle and customs of a group of people or social group. Traditions are customs, practices, or beliefs passed between generations. One's community can have different meaning from the place that the person lives to where they work or attend school or gather with others. A tribe implies that a group of people or community share a bond whether social, religious, economical or other factor. If there are other specific terms you are looking to compare, let me know.

Either spend an hour on internet surfing through pages and not understanding anything or watch this 3 min clip and get your concepts clear!!! Viola!

@MariaGeorge

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am glad that my video helped you learn these concepts.

Good explanation

Great video. Did you invent the jellybean analogy?

@MariaGeorge

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I saw the jelly bean analogy demonstrated somewhere and decided to make a video about it.

I feel like you mixed in nationality in some places. Like you referred to Chinese, Korean and such as being ethnicities, but there are very distinct ethnic groups in China that would all be of Chinese nationality. You did a similar thing when describing American culture, but there are many cultures under the American nationality.

@MariaGeorge

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment. The definitions of these terms can sometimes overlap and easily be confused. The definition of ethnicity is "the state of belonging to a social group that has a shared language, cultture, and religion". You are correct that there are many distinct ethnic groups in China. However, one can identify their ethnicity through a broad ethnic category such as how I identify myself as Chinese or one of the more specific ethnic groups. I don't know what mine since my parents are from different regions so I will leave my ehtnicity as Chinese. Nationality can be defined as belonging to a similar ethnic group and living in the same country or having legal citizenship of a nation. This is where nationality and culture can blur. Since my citizenship is in America, my nationality is American. Culture is where I share beliefs, behaviors, and norms that produce certain expected social behavior and attitudes so I can also describe my culture as American or like, you mentioned, a more specific region or culture of America as in my example of being Asian-American. Either is acceptable.

@MariaGeorge

3 жыл бұрын

@@clovismerovingian2239 Hi Clovis - First I want to acknowledge that these terms can be confusing and they often get interchanged. However, each term does have its own meaning. So for ethnicity, as I mentioned in my previous comment, it is defined as "the state of belonging to a social group that has a shared language, cultture, and religion" while the definition of culture is the "customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group" So for ethnicity, like you mentioned it has more to do with your ancestry. Where are your ancestors from? That's the ethnic group. Living in America, our culture is American. Now we can have a subculture or more specific culture in America which was what you are describing. Even though I do define my culture as American, I can further define it as Californian since the culture in California is different than say, Florida. And being in either Northern or Southern California will provide even more specifics to my culture. I hope that made sense. It's easy to confuse the terms.

@bc9818

2 жыл бұрын

I say my race is Asian, my nationality is American, my ethnicity is Filipino. My culture isn't American though. Because Americans don't eat lumpia or call their elder sister Ate or take an elder's hand and put it to their forehead as a sign of respect (mano). These are from my Filipino cultural background. Having lived in America since I was 3, I wouldn't say I have an American culture. I might eat fast food but fast food is everywhere. I speak English but English is also spoken in Canada, Australia, England, and other countries. I don't know of anything that's really considered American culture since there are things that are done in various regions of the country (surfing is mostly done in California and Hawaii, hockey is primarily for north where they have a lot of snow, cotillions and debutante balls are usually Southern). Cultural identity is partly your race (PoC time or always being late), partly of your ethnicity (speaking the "mother tongue"), partly of where you live (surfing in California), partly of your social group (knowing about video games because you hang out with gamers and streamers), partly of your age (I grew up in the 80s and 90s so technology is something I had to adapt with as I grew up as opposed to millenials and zoomers who had the internet their whole life), partly your gender and sexual identity, and partly your belief system (organized religion or spirituality and politics). So my culture is varied because I am Filipino, living in Southern California, born in the 70s, am a cishet bisexual female, with a healthy mix of conservative, progressive, and independent political ideologies who is obsessed with all nerdy stuff.

@clovismerovingian2239

2 жыл бұрын

@@bc9818 Yes, American culture differs heavily by region. There is a whole body of literature on this topic foremost among them David Hackett Fisher's Albion's Seed and Colin Woodard's American Nations. Basically different groups of people from the British Isles, the Netherlands, France, and Spain settled different parts of the North American continent creating seperate regional cultures that differ in many respects more than any two European nations. Germany and France would agree with each other more on religious questions, political attitudes, the proper role of government in people's lives, and pretty much any cultural value you can think of than, for example, the state of Vermont and the state of Mississippi despite Germany and France speaking different languages and warring with each other many times in history. There is no real unified American culture but 11 dominant stateless nations contained within 50 states. By the definitions given here my race is white, my ethnicity is a Northwestern European mix from the British Isles, German speaking Europe, and Scandinavia, and my culture is the culture of the Deep South. My nationality would be American though honestly I identify with the state I'm from and my region than with the United States as a whole. That's the old way that Americans used to identify before the Civil War and it makes more sense to me.

loved this

@MariaGeorge

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I think any kind of divison like race could cause friction between groups so I think we should just refer to ourselves as human

Ethnicity is linked to ancestral heritage, and is far closer to race than people think. I can't think of any ethnicity which permits someone to be a member of their ethnic group who doesn't share physical/racial traits (or at least isn't perceived to share ancestry). No one would say a white person born and raised in Thailand is ethnically Thai, or white people born and raised in India, as ethnically Indian. I don't really agree there's a real difference between ethnicity and race, they both are essentially the same thing as they are both tied to how we physically look. If ethnicity is tied to cultural markers (which many scholars claim), then why does no one (or very few) accept that someone can be 'ethnically' X IF they did not descend ancestrally from (and thus look similar) to the majority of the group?? No one accepts that just because you are culturally X that you are therefore ethnically X, it is about how you look. If I as a white person was deserted as a 1 day old baby in the middle of Thai jungle, ands raised by a rural Thai hill tribe, spoke the language did everything the same as them and never went or even knew about another country, no one would say I am ethnically 'Thai'. They would say I am an English person whose nationality was Thai and who is culturally Thai, but not ethnically Thai. Which refutes that ethnicity is tied to cultural experience.

@clovismerovingian2239

2 жыл бұрын

What do you think of Americans with English ancestry that claim to be English ethnically? I hear that Europeans hate when Americans identify ethnically with their ancestors in Europe. Are Americans confused or are Europeans confused?

@ATIWatchReviews

2 жыл бұрын

@@clovismerovingian2239 The answer is totally impossible to determine unless ethnicity is defined. Ethnicity can be defined as tied to cultural identity (similar to nationality) or it can be tied to ancestral genetic heritage. If the latter, than ethnicity is regarded as being genetic and not determined by cultural conditions (i.e a white English person who descended from historic white English tribes being dumped in the middle of India and raised Indian, is he ethnically English or Indian?) It is not possible to answer it until we define ethnicity.

@clovismerovingian2239

2 жыл бұрын

@@ATIWatchReviews Yes, the question of whether ethnicity is a matter of ancestry or culture confuses me as well. An American would say that it's a matter of ancestry as seen in this video with the Asian-American lady. When asking about one's ethnicity in the United States you are asking about the peoples from the old country a person is descended from. There is little German about me culturally but because many of my ancestors were German I am considered German-American ethnically among other things. However if I were to go to Germany they would say that I wasn't born in Germany, I didn't grow up in Germany, and don't speak a word of German so I'm not really German. Then paradoxically they will say that a man of Turkish descent born in Germany who fits all of the qualifications that I do not will still not be considered German because he is not of German descent. It seems that Americans are more consistent on this matter than Europeans and I have a theory that it has to do with the Europeans being scared out of defining ethnicity biologically by the Nazis. WW2 never traumatized us Americans as much as Europe so we just kept the old way of defining ethnicity by blood.

@ATIWatchReviews

2 жыл бұрын

@@clovismerovingian2239 I agree. I think it would be better to remove the word ethnicity and just use the word ancestry/ancestral heritage. If census forms asked what ancestral grouping are you, we would have much much less confusion. No one understands whether ethnicity is cultural or genetic identifier, but it generally seems to indicate genetic heritage as opposed to cultural linkages. That way you would have your national cultural identity, which has nothing to do with racial features/skin culture, and your ancestral genetic heritage, which is to do with how you look. Using ethnicity just completely confuses everyone as its defined badly and inconsistently.

i've always had an hard time with these concepts because despite being ethnically and culturally white, i do not look white at all, thing that has lead people chatting about me and my family history my whole life because in their eyes i do not look white and consquently i've alway been treated differently than the rest of my family, making me realize how much of a thing white privilege still is

@Alexios1389

2 жыл бұрын

What You mean You dont look white

@clel45136

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alexios1389 i look middle eastern/north african so people perceive me as such

thank you,this will help me respect people of color as a white person.

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY?

@MariaGeorge

Жыл бұрын

Great question. While ethnicity refers to a group that shares a common language, ancestry, religion or culture, nationality usually refers to the nation state where the person is born or lives in and where they are citizens. Ethnicity is a social construct while nationality is more of a legal construct. For example, a person’s ethnicity can be Korean but their nationality may be American where they hold citizenship. However, these terms have been used interchangeably and nationality can overlap with ethnicity. You will need to look at the context of how the terms are used.

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Jelly beans !! now that is CULTURAL...ie amerrycanism... you could have said hamburgers..ie 1 with pineapple, 1 with beetroot, 1 with egg, 1 with cheese ,1 with jalapenos, 1 with beef ,1 with ham /pork, 1 with falafel,...do you get my DRIFT ? it is all cultural.....NOT RACIAL in the slightest way imaginable !

Asian isn't a race. And you got ethnicity wrong too

@MariaGeorge

2 жыл бұрын

The terms race and ethnicity have been used interchangeably and their definitions are not as clear cut as we would like. I based my descriptions on academic and research sources but I acknowledge that other resources may define these terms differently. Race is mostly defined based on physical traits while ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify on the basis of shared attributes such as language, ancestry, and traditions. Most sources, including our US Census, categorize Asian as a race. I am open to hear your definition of these two terms.

@EnanTheEarthling

2 жыл бұрын

@@MariaGeorge wow, I didn't know about the US officially categorizing Asian as a race. I don't think most countries even recognize the concept of there being different races and mainly use ethnicity as an identifier in their census instead(although I'm only saying this based on what I know about my own country). If I had to define ethnicity and race I'd say ethnicity is any group that share the same geographical, ancestral and cultural origin; and race isany classification of people based solely on physical traits or characteristics. But, I also think that the terms can be used interchangeably. What I don't understand is how Asian can be a race if for example a Tamil and a Korean don't share any distinguishable physical traits.

@MariaGeorge

2 жыл бұрын

@@EnanTheEarthling I agree with your definitions and while race is mostly about physical traits, ancestry and culture can get mixed into the definition of race which make these terms challenging to differentiate. Like I mentioned, I am basing my definitions on how most academic and social scientists define them. Good point about Tamils and Koreans. I think because both groups are geographically in the Asian area that they technically fall under the same race. That’s my guess. Anyway, I appreciate your comments. They made me think!

Why nowadays if you call yellow they say it's a bad word ?!🙄

You lost me at I don't know.