What Defines a Person?

Race

• Categorizes humans by heredity, physical characteristics, geographic ancestry

• Examples• White• Black• Asian• Pacific Islander

• It’s what you bubble in on a form• Created around the time of exploration

Race over time

Ethnicity

• A group of people whose members identify with each other through a common heritage often consisting of a common ideology that stresses common ancestry

• Examples:• African American• Kurd• Arab• French

• Not everyone has an ethnicity they identify with, especially in diverse countries

Nationality

• A country of allegiance or national identity• Examples:• American• Chinese• Colombian• French

• This can be the same as your ethnicity• “If there is a war, who would you fight for?”

Religious Group

• A group of people who adhere to the same religious beliefs

• Examples:• Jews• Sikhs • Buddhists• Mormons

• Within world religions there are specific divisions• Some ethnicities have specific religious groups within

them, although some are all one religion• Some religious groups are tribal or very specific