Race, Ethnicity and Cultuer

 We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

Race includes phenotypic characteristics such as skin color, whereas ethnicity also encompasses cultural factors such as nationality, tribal affiliation, religion, language and traditions of a particular group. By this article I would like to present about simple discussion about race, ethnicity and culture. 

Race and ethnicity are used to categorize certain sections of the population. In basic terms, race describes physical traits, and ethnicity refers to cultural identification. Race may also be identified as something you inherit while ethnicity is something you learn.

What is race?

Race is a term social construct that artificially divides people into distinct groups based on certain characteristics. Race is a term social construct that artificially divides people into distinct groups based on certain characteristics. The idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences. Race is a powerful social category forged historically through oppression, slavery, and conquest.

The social meaning of race and caste as pathways to employment, health, or education demonstrably overwhelms the analytic and explanatory power of genetic markers of difference between human aggregates.

Racial Diversity

According to Wikipedia Racial diversity in United States schools is the representation of different racial or ethnic groups in American schools:

 

Socaial Darwinism

According to social Darwinism, the biological concepts of natural selection, and the survival of the fittest in the environment also applicable to the human race, sociology as well.

Social Darwinism, the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature.

What is Raacism?

Racism can be defined as beliefs, attitudes, and acts that denigrate or disadvantage individuals or groups because of presumed racial or ethnic group affiliation.  The belief that different nations of the world have different characteristics, abilities, or reasons for distinguishing their status from inferior or superior to each other.

Culture

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. Thus, it can be seen as the growth of a group identity fostered by social patterns unique to the group.

Culture Development is good or not?

Cultural Development refers to the strategic planning and implementing of strategies to leverage your community's unique cultural assets for the economic and cultural benefit of the community as a whole. Therefore I think culture development is good.

A strong and free culture can ensure the primary rights, freedom and important in continuing peace among the society. A well-built and developed culture reflects the unity in a particular society or a country hence such development can be considered as good.

Ethnicity

An ethnic group or ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups such as a common set of traditions, ancestry, language, history, society, culture, nation, religion or social treatment within their residing area.

Ethnicity is a broader term than race. The term is used to categorize groups of people according to their cultural expression and identification. Commonalities such as racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin may be used to describe someone's ethnicity.

And also we can simply explain ethnicity as fallows, how to live a good life, our rights and responsibilities, the language of right and wrong, and moral decisions

Belonging to or belonging to a social group with a common collective national or cultural tradition. This situation often affects the culture.

Ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives. Ethics concerned with the good for individuals and society and also described as moral philosophy. Ethics about something or someone other than ourselves and our own desires a self-interests, so that's why the ethics be the base of a culture. Ethics can be described as the source of a group strength, Because of the view of a social group, if they this is wrong, all group members fallow that as a wrong .not only that there is a conflict between followers and the unfollowers of that moral. This is the base of cultural differences.

Dinesh Shiwantha Wanigathunga

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