Group 3 Race & Ethnicity Dd1

Racism and Ethnicity

RACE

• It is a category of men and women who shared biologically transmitted traits that are socially significant. • Race are commonly distinguished by physical characteristics such as Skin colors, Hair texture, facial features, and body type.

3 Racial Classification

3 Racial Classification

•CAUCASIAN •NEGROID •MONGOLOID

CAUCASIAN •People who have light skin and fine hair.

NEGROID •People who have darker skin, coarser, curlier hair

MONGOLOID •Yellow or brown skin and distinctive folds on eyelids.

ETHNICITY

Ethnicity

it refers not to physical characteristics but social traits that are shared by a human population.

Ethnic classification • nationality • tribe • religious faith • shared language • shared culture • shared traditions

Minorities • A racial or ethnic minority is a category of people defined by physical or cultural traits, who are socially disadvantaged. • Minorities are of many kinds, including people with physical disabilities and even women.

2 Major characteristics of Minorities

• Distinctive Identity • Subordination

Distinctive Identity • This are highly visible • It is virtually impossible for a person to change. Example: Skin Color (Black American)

Subordination • Race or ethnicity often serves as a master status that empowers other personal traits. Example Black American Doctors

Prejudice  pre-judging of something.  it involves coming to a judgment on a subject before learning where the hold of evidence actually lies.  prejudice can lead to discrimination

Discrimination • Treating various categories of people unequally. *** prejudice refers to attitude and discrimination is a matter of action.

Ethnocide • a concept related to genocide. • However, unlike genocide, which has entered into international law, ethnocide remains primarily the province of ethnologists, who have not yet settled on a single cohesive meaning for the term. Primarily, the term is used to describe the destruction of a culture of a people, as opposed to the people themselves.

Majority and Minority: Pattern of Interaction

Pluralism • Is a state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct but have social parity.

Assimilation • Is the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture. • It involves changing modes of dress, values, religion, language, or friends.

Segregation • It refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people. • Sometimes minorities, especially religious groups, voluntarily segregate themselves.

Genocide • Is a systematic killing of one category of people by another • Brutal form of racism and ethnocentrism

ETHNIC CONFLICT

ETHNIC CONFLICT • “ethnic war” • is a war between ethnic groups often as a result of ethnic nationalism. • They are of interest because of the apparent prevalence in the aftermath of the Cold War and because they frequently result in war crimes such as genocide.

• Academics explanations of ethnic conflict generally fall into one of three schools of thought: primordialist, instrumentalist or constructivist. • Intellectual debate has also focused around the issue of whether ethnic conflict has become more prevalent since the end of the Cold War, and on devising ways of managing conflicts, through instruments such as consociationalism and federalisation.

Philippine Minorities

Christian Filipinos

Muslim Filipinos

Natives: Ifugao

Chinese-Filipinos