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    Well, I think race, ethnicity, nationality etc. are often overlapping and different people often use somewhat different definitions so I don't find the whole concept all that clear.
    You just agreed that French and arab are ethnicities for example, yet one is a nationality and the other is more of a meta-concept that includes people who speak a certain language over many different nationalities for some, and people living in a certain region for others.


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    It could be nice to see a venn diagram displaying this as there are many concepts that all mean subtly different things.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
    It could be nice to see a venn diagram displaying this as there are many concepts that all mean subtly different things.

    er, this is the realm of social science. 'ere be dragons an' no Ven diagrams.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
    Well, I think race, ethnicity, nationality etc. are often overlapping and different people often use somewhat different definitions so I don't find the whole concept all that clear.
    You just agreed that French and arab are ethnicities for example, yet one is a nationality and the other is more of a meta-concept that includes people who speak a certain language over many different nationalities for some, and people living in a certain region for others.
    Fair point, there are differing interpretations of Ethnicity though:

    From wikipedia:

    Writing about the usage of the term "ethnic" in the ordinary language of Great Britain and the United States, Wallman notes that

    The term 'ethnic' popularly connotes 'race' in Britain, only less precisely, and with a lighter value load. In North America, by contrast, 'race' most commonly means color, and 'ethnics' are the descendents of relatively recent immigrants from non-English-speaking countries. 'Ethnic' is not a noun in Britain. In effect there are no 'ethnics'; there are only 'ethnic relations'.[23]
    Thus, in today's everyday language, the words "ethnic" and "ethnicity" still have a ring of exotic peoples, minority issues and race relations.

    Within the social sciences, however, the usage has become more generalized to all human groups that explicitly regard themselves and are regarded by others as culturally distinctive.[24] Among the first to bring the term "ethnic group" into social studies was the German sociologist Max Weber, who defined it as:

    Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization and migration; this belief must be important for group formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.

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