Race and Ethnicity: are they the same?

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I think most people conflate ethnicity and race on this board. Race and ethnicity are two different things. While ethnicity is mostly based on language and culture, race is based on genetic traits, colour, phenotype etc. For example: I see people tag Latinos/Hispanics as brown but the ethnicity isn't just about brown people - there are black, and white Latinos/Hispanics and their racial identities aren't intertwined despite having the same ethnicity.

Now, back to why I created the thread: some people are conflating creole with black. Creole is an ethnicity not a race. And there were European French (and a few Spanish) creoles before black people and other races were assimilated into creole, hence there are different dialects/variants of creole language. The Gullahs, for example, who form a subgroup of creole are distinctly black. But that doesn't negate the fact that all creoles aren't black. There are cac creoles, Indian creoles etc.

@Poitier no beef with you. You can call me a cac if you want, it doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable in my own skin and I doubt you're blacker than me. The only people I think might be blacker than me are Nilo-Saharan people somewhere in Kenya and South Sudan. Breh, you need to stop being hypersensitive because you're starting to look like a supremacist against other black people.

Paul Mooney: "everybody wants to be a nikka but nobody wanna be nikka". You can't claim everyone - the black struggle is deeper than a tan.:ehh:
 

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Nope

Race can be Black, ethnicity can be c00n


Same as Race being Black, but ethnicity could be Jamaican. In some cases, nationality would be the same as ethnicity
 

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p*ssy and money depravation got these nikkas brains turning to mush :pachaha:

:mjlol: Is that all you have got, breh?

I don't need to come on thecoli and talk about how much money and p*ssy I'm getting. Real nikka getting both don't talk about it, like old money.

Only nikkas that aren't getting none seek validation from faceless people.:scust::mjcry:
 

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:mjlol: Is that all you have got, breh?

I don't need to come on thecoli and talk about how much money and p*ssy I'm getting. Real nikka getting both don't talk about it, like old money.

Only nikkas that aren't getting none seek validation from faceless people.:scust::mjcry:

Whatever you need to tell yourself to get through this life
 

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If your passport had the same number of stamps that mine has, you wouldn't need to tell yourself anything or look for validation on a faceless board, to know life is good.

Enough of the back and forth. Do you have anything to contribute or nah?

You even assume personal information about an anonymous stranger on a forum like a bytch would do :ehh:
 

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Two people can be the same race but, of different ethnicity.

Nationality is the country. Race is the skin color. Ethnicity is any cultural, religious or social linkage that bonds people together.

So.....Fulanis, Igbos and Yorubas are all black but, they're of different ethnicity.
 
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