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Assignment: Race and Ethnicity

   

Added on  2021-02-19

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ETHNICITY

TABLE OF CONTENTSTOPIC..............................................................................................................................................1INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTIONEthnicity refers to the group of people who have some common factors. These factors canbe cultural factors or social factors. On the basis of these factors, individuals identify each otheras a common base (Steinmetz, 2018). An example of ethnicity is British can define themselveson the basis of nationality and on the same basis, they differentiate themselves from others suchas Germany or Spanish etc. Cultural society refers to the group of people on the basis of culturalaspects such as religion, race, values, customs and beliefs etc. Example of cultural society isChristian group and Hindu group etc. The terms Ethnicity and Cultural society are interrelated toeach other’s. This essay will highlight the roles of ethnicity in the context of cultural society'sdevelopment. MAIN BODYEthnicity plays a vital role in cultural society as it impacts people's lives as well as theiridentity in different forms. Ethnicity is normally referred as national background by which anindividual is identified. In other words ethnicity is used to describe and categories an individual'scultural characteristics for example skin colour, genes and various other features. Ethnicitystrongly impacts today's modern society as it influences people's behaviour, mentality, attitude aswell as the way they feel about any issue. It is identified the moment any person is born. It alsodefines the way an individual behaves, handle any kind of conflict, the way they solve theirproblems as well as the way they express their feelings through body language or expressions orverbally. It has been seen that ethnicity is gaining momentum in today's world as today there isno nation who has one single ethnic group. Due to this increasing momentum culture is gettingaffected drastically which is further affecting characteristics of individual’s involved in particularethnic groups (Hussain, 2017). Many times due to this ethnicity cultural differences are createdin terms of education, willingness to accept an information or incorporate that information withintheir lifestyle. Ethnicity also affects wellness and health of an individual, their education, theircreativity and innovation, sustainability, interaction, communication as well as overall behaviourof a society. Conflict theory-This is often applied to the inequalities which are caused into various classes, race andethnicity which will be specifying the conflicts between minorities. It can be added that conflicttheory which was according to the perspective of US history that was under struggle among1

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