Exam 6: Ethnicity and Race

A policy of ethnic expulsion aims at removing from a country groups who are culturally different. There are many examples, including Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s; Uganda expelling 74,000 Asians in 1972; and so on. The neofascist parties of contemporary western Europe advocate the repatriation of immigrant workers. What is one of the potential consequences of such policies?

What are the major differences between the Brazilian and U.S. systems of racial classification?

Describe the political aspect of ethnicity. Give examples. How is multiculturalism an attempt to depoliticize ethnicity? (Start with a careful definition of what you mean by political.)

Human biological differences are evident only to individuals who wrongfully sustain the validity of human races.

East Asians who have emigrated recently from India and Pakistan to northern areas of the United Kingdom have a higher incidence of rickets and osteoporosis than the general British population. This phenomenon illustrates that

An achieved status is not automatic. It comes through choices, actions, efforts, talents, or accomplishments, and is always perceived as positive by a society.

In 1998, the American Anthropological Association issued a statement on race. This statement makes all of the following points EXCEPT that

Humanity (Homo sapiens) lacks distinct races, because human populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop into discrete groups.

Which of the following is a reason why dark skin color is adaptive?

Brazilian racial classification is based exclusively on an individual's phenotype.

Only dominant or majority groups can have prejudiced views; minority groups are not capable of being prejudiced.

Organizations in the United States such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group, have opposed adding a "multiracial" census category. This suggests that

What is the term for the use of force by a dominant group to compel a minority to adopt the dominant culture?

In cultural terms, a race is an ethnic group that has a biological basis.

An ascribed status is a status that

There is much greater variation within each of the traditional races than between them.

Ethnicity means identification with

Why do differences in skin pigmentation exist around the world? What adaptive advantages do different skin colors confer?

What term refers to an organism's evident traits, or its "manifest biology"?

Support or refute this statement: By rejecting the race concept, anthropologists are ignoring obvious human biological variation.