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What is the Similarities And Differences Between A Racial Group And An Ethnic Group?

What is the Similarities And Differences Between A Racial Group And An Ethnic Group?

A fundamental pillar of human rights is the principle that all men born free and equal, with equal rights and dignity. Discrimination and persecution based on race or ethnicity is a violation of this principle. Racial discrimination can take many forms, from the most brutal and institutional - the genocide and apartheid, to more subtle forms that some racial and ethnic groups do not enjoy the same civil, political, economic, social, and cultural the rest of the population (Rothenberg 2006).

The racial and ethnic discrimination continues to pose a significant problem worldwide, affecting minority groups and majority groups sometimes. For long international attention focused on apartheid in South Africa, but apartheid has ceased to exist since 1994. Yet the struggle for the abolition of the ethnic and racial hatred continues, the decade of the 1990s reflecting the ethnic conflicts that can easily be classified among the worst in human history, including the Balkans and the African Great Lakes (Taylor & White 2000).

A race defined as a group "sharing common ancestry, physical characteristics that distinguish them from other groups such as eye color, color or hair, skin color, stature." The adjective "ethnic" is defined as "concerning or characteristic of a group with common racial traits, linguistic, religious, and some other features"(Shaw 2000). In the context of international law, the term "race" often used in a broader sense and often confused with other group distinctions based on religion, language, ethnicity, culture, and social characteristics. In addition, the term "race" is often used in the context of men's rights groups to describe non-biological, such as caste systems in India and Japan.

Ethnic groups are defined by individuals who belong to them, and can be recognized and identified by people who do not belong to them. It has been argued that these groups are characterized by their perception of shared ancestry more than by actual shared beliefs or practices. In many societies, one ethnic group is in the majority and one or more form groups. This creates power imbalances between different ethnic groups which underpin all the challenges faced by researchers working with participants from different ethnic groups. Also, it is not possible to be sure that a research method which works well with one ethnic group will work well, with ...