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Nationality and Ethnicity
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or common interests or beliefs
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Confused?
Someone’s nationality has nothing to do with their ancestors.
The meanings of the terms RACE, NATIONALITY, and ETHNICITY are often confused with one another.
Imagine both your parents are from Oakland.
You all live in Oakland now.
Imagine you were born
in Oakland, California.
Both your parents
were born in Mexico.
YOUR nationality is American.
What is Nationality?
The other two terms are related to race, but they DO NOT mean the same things.
Someone’s nationality is determined by the country in which they were born.
This can include race,
religion
THEIR nationality is American.
Ethnicity
Nationality
THEIR nationality is Mexican.
Examples of Nationality
Ethnicity sometimes includes someone’s race and nationality, but all of those words have different meanings.
Someone’s ethnicity is determined by the ways a culture connects people to one another.
We learned that someone’s RACE is determined by their membership in a group of people who share distinct physical traits that have been passed on to them by their ancestors.
EXAMPLES:
CUBA
Someone’s nationality has EVERYTHING to do with where they themselves were born.
Mexico
YOUR nationality is Jamaican.
Jamaica
haiti
Belize
Your mother gave birth to you on a
vacation they took to Jamaica.
Dominican
Republic
Honduras
Guatemala
Nicaragua
El Salvador
Venezuela
Colombia
costa rica
Panama
where someone lives or was born
What is Ethnicity?
Jews
Muslims
Native Americans
Tongans
English-Speakers
Christians
Examples of Ethnicity
African-Americans
Californians,
Oaklanders
Asians
Any group of people someone identifies
with can be considered an ethnic group.