Cultural Variations and Social

Differences in Ethnicity and

Religion

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 Research about Them

Research about the characteristics,

traditions, practices, and norms of an
ethnic group or religion.

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Research about Them

What Makes a Religion or Ethnic Group Unique?

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Research about Them

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Research
Activation about Them

1. What factors make an ethnicity or religion unique from others?

2. How do ethnicity and religion affect the social life of an individual?
3. What challenges are faced by people from a minority ethnic and religious
group?

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Ethnic Group

An ethnic group refers to a

specific group of people
with similar characteristics
and a distinct cultural
identity, which distinguish
them from other groups in
the community or society.

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Ethnicity

Ethnicity denotes the shared

culture of these groups,
which includes cultural
heritage, language or dialect,
religion, traditions and
rituals, norms, values, beliefs,
and other practices.

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Ethnicity

Race is a socially constructed

category attributed to people
with the same biological
traits or attributes.

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Differentiating Ethnicity and Race

Ethnicity Race

● constructed Both ● constructed

based on ethnicity and based on
cultural traits race are biological
socially characteristics
● diverse constructed.
● more unitary
or singular

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Ethnic and Ethnolinguistic Groups in the Philippines

Ethnolinguistic groups are ethnic groups with their own language.

Ifugao Itneg Kalinga

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Religion in Ethnicity

Religion is a system
of beliefs, worldviews,
and practices related
to humanity and
spirituality.

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Religion in Ethnicity

Animism is the belief

that spiritual forces
reside in natural
elements of the
physical world (e.g.,
trees, oceans, wind).

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Social Implications of Diverse Ethnicities

Prejudices Stereotypes Minority Groups

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LET’S PUT IT THIS WAY

Religious Conflicts,
BARMM, and the
COVID-19 Pandemic

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