Racism

and Ethnicity
RACE
• It is a category of men and women
who shared biologically transmitted
traits that are socially significant.

• Race are commonly distinguished by

physical characteristics such as Skin
colors, Hair texture, facial features,
and body type.
 3 Racial
Classification
 3 Racial Classification

•CAUCASIAN
•NEGROID
•MONGOLOID
 CAUCASIAN
•People
who have
light skin
and fine
hair.
 NEGROID
•People who
have darker
skin,
coarser,
curlier hair
 MONGOLOID
•Yellow or
brown skin
and
distinctive
folds on
eyelids.
ETHNICITY
 Ethnicity
it refers not to physical
characteristics but
social traits that are
shared by a human
population.
 Ethnic
classification
• nationality
• tribe
• religious faith
• shared language
• shared culture
• shared traditions
 Minorities
• A racial or ethnic minority is a category of
people defined by physical or cultural
traits, who are socially disadvantaged.
• Minorities are of many kinds, including
people with physical disabilities and even
women.
2 Major characteristics of
Minorities
• Distinctive Identity
• Subordination
 Distinctive Identity
• This are highly visible
• It is virtually
impossible for a
person to change.
Example:
Skin Color (Black
American)
 Subordination
• Race or ethnicity
often serves as a
master status that
empowers other
personal traits.

Example
Black American
Doctors
 Prejudice
 pre-judging of something.
 it involves coming to a judgment on
a subject before learning where the
hold of evidence actually lies.
 prejudice can lead to discrimination
 Discrimination

• Treating various categories of people

unequally.

*** prejudice refers to attitude and

discrimination is a matter of action.
 Ethnocide
• a concept related to genocide.
• However, unlike genocide, which has
entered into international law, ethnocide
remains primarily the province of
ethnologists, who have not yet settled on
a single cohesive meaning for the term.
Primarily, the term is used to describe the
destruction of a culture of a people, as
opposed to the people themselves.
Majority and Minority:
Pattern of Interaction
 Pluralism
• Is a state in which racial and ethnic
minorities are distinct but have social
parity.
 Assimilation
• Is the process by which minorities
gradually adopt patterns of the dominant
culture.
• It involves changing modes of dress,
values, religion, language, or friends.
 Segregation
• It refers to the physical and social
separation of categories of people.
• Sometimes minorities, especially religious
groups, voluntarily segregate themselves.
 Genocide
• Is a systematic killing
of one category of
people by another
• Brutal form of racism
and ethnocentrism
ETHNIC CONFLICT
 ETHNIC CONFLICT
• “ethnic war”
• is a war between ethnic groups often
as a result of ethnic nationalism.
• They are of interest because of the
apparent prevalence in the aftermath of
the Cold War and because they
frequently result in war crimes such as
genocide.
• Academics explanations of ethnic conflict
generally fall into one of three schools of
thought: primordialist, instrumentalist or
constructivist.
• Intellectual debate has also focused around
the issue of whether ethnic conflict has
become more prevalent since the end of the
Cold War, and on devising ways of managing
conflicts, through instruments such as
consociationalism and federalisation.
Philippine Minorities
Christian Filipinos
Muslim Filipinos
Natives: Ifugao
Chinese-Filipinos