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What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

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Race is dividing people into groups on the basis of various physical characteristics and the process of using social meaning to those groups.

Ethnicity shows the culture of people in a geographic region, their language, heritage, religion and customs.
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Answer:Race refers to the concept of dividing people into groups on the basis of various sets of physical characteristics and the process of ascribing social meaning to those groups. Ethnicity describes the culture of people in a given geographic region, including their language, heritage, religion and customs.

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