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"Ethnicity" mistakenly redirects here, even though they are two very distinct concepts. "Race" is the grouping together of people based on superficial characteristics (i.e. black, white, asian, and so on). "Ethnicity" refers to grouping based upon shared cultural, historical, or similar heritages. Conflating the two is a very common error of ignorance, so we should not encourage it.--[[User:TomMoore|TomMoore]] 00:51, 6 March 2008 (EST)
"Ethnicity" mistakenly redirects here, even though they are two very distinct concepts. "Race" is the grouping together of people based on superficial characteristics (i.e. black, white, asian, and so on). "Ethnicity" refers to grouping based upon shared cultural, historical, or similar heritages. Conflating the two is a very common error of ignorance, so we should not encourage it.--[[User:TomMoore|TomMoore]] 00:51, 6 March 2008 (EST)
:It as an error of fatigue; thank you or correcting me. I normally know better. An embarassing mistake to have made. Thanks Tom Moore!-[[User:PhoenixWright|PhoenixWright]] 01:12, 6 March 2008 (EST)
:It as an error of fatigue; thank you or correcting me. I normally know better. An embarassing mistake to have made. Thanks Tom Moore!-[[User:PhoenixWright|PhoenixWright]] 01:12, 6 March 2008 (EST)
==Race as a taboo subject today==
I came to notice less people in America and western Europe (any free world democracy) don't like the idea of "races" of people, as much they oppose the immoral ideology of "superior" or "inferior" races. Of course, the [[Nazis]] too were racists and hated non-Germans/whites around the world. They labeled the [[Jews]] as a separate "race" but the actual meaning is a "lower" species of humans, while most present-day anthropologists reject the sociopolitical "race science" that the Jewish people are "racially different" from non-Jewish Caucasians. Also the US census had historically declared Latinos, Asians, Arabs, Pacific Islanders, Irish, Italians and Poles "racially" apart from white Anglo-Saxons (or admittedly used terms like "Nordic" or "Aryan") in the racial/ethnological classification of people in the USA. + [[User:Getitstraight|Getitstraight]] 12:06, 14 December 2009 (EST)