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Antropology individual assighnment

Section 3
Name; ……………………………………………………………….
Id number;…………………………………………………………
question;
1. What is ethincity and identity
2. Why the term ethencity prominent after second world war
3. Describe the etemology of the term ethinicity
4. Why max weber and Anderson conception the term ethenic
group
5. What are objective and subjective value of the term ethenic group
or ethencity
6. What are the six main feature of ethencity group by hutchson
7. What is race
8. Compare and contrast etencity and race
9. Why the term race became relevant today

Answers;
1. Ethnicity is an identity based upon a presumption of shared history
and common cultural inheritance Identity is the qualities, beliefs,
personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterize a
person or group.
2. Second world war advertises cites the section of the order banning
discrimination
3. Ethnicity and related terms arise from the Greek word ethnos,
which defines a band, group, or swarm
4. Weber famously defines ethnic groups as “those human groups that
entertain a subjective belief in their com- mon descent because of
similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of
memories of colonization and migration” (Weber 1978,
389). Anderson depicts a nation as a socially-constructed
community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part
of a group.
5. the sum of stable attitudes and choice tendencies, including feeling
components, which come from evaluating the significance of ethnic
culture by minority ethnic members according to their own needs
6. those are…
 White.
 Black or African American.
 American Indian or Alaska Native.
 Asian.
 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
7. A race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or
social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given
society
8. Race refers to the concept of dividing people into groups on the basis
of various sets of physical characteristics and the process of
ascribing social meaning to those groups. Ethnicity describes the
culture of people in a given geographic region, including their
language, heritage, religion and customs.
9. Because we are using it for practical purpus at this time people
use race more commonly for example we can use our country as
an example…

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