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3. 1. Unfortunately in our society people are judged and put into categories by race. Hansen tells us that the definition of race is, "how a person identifies themselves in response to a question about their racial background. People have tried to categorize man since the beginning of time. The first actual reference to race comes from Homer. He spoke of a black or southern race. Early Greek and Egyptian writings talk about the poor being of another race. The first person to attempt to classify people by race was German Anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. He came up with five groups including Caucasians, Mongolians, Ethiopians, Americans, and Malayans. It is important to almost every culture to distinguish people between races. They look at how some people are the same and how they are different from each other. While there are many different social definitions for race modern genetics tells us that there are no biological factors that determine race. There are physical characteristics that we conotate with certain races but that has nothing to do with biology. We know from DNA studies that we all have a common ancestor. I will go through six different theories of race. Race as lineage is classified by a
4. Immigration is an important fact that affects and that has always affected our country. There are all sorts of views to it. There are people who believe that this country should remain open to all because that it is how our forefathers came here. There are others that say that our country is already filled with enough people and that we should not let new people into it. Immigration is defined by Schafer as, "coming into a new country as a permanent resident." (Schaefer 505) There have been many different waves of immigration to the United States since its existence. There are three dist intertwined but are different in meaning. Schaefer 4. 2. Ethnicity as defined by Hansen is "displaying or being perceived to display shared historical experiences as well as unique organizational, behavioral, and cultural characteristics." There are different cultural characteristics that give ethnic labels. These characteristics include native language, cultural traditions, country or region of beginning, norms and beliefs, family rituals or practices, preferences in food and clothing, and interaction patterns or interpersonal styles. 5. 3. Prejudice and discrimination are two terms that can be group of persons, animals, or plants connected by a common descent or origin. The major point of this definition is that physical traits are passed down by heredity. Linnaeus came up with the binomial classification which came from the observation that there were animals that could not successfully interbreed with other animals. Race as a type uses characteristics with a special form. This theory uses the physical characteristics such as skin color, hair
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