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FLASHCARD DATA FOR ETHNICITY AND RACE Topic 1: Overview 1. The general criteria that most Americans today use to classify each other into groups. age, economic class, religion, gender, ethnicity, and race 2. A category or group of people considered to be significantly different from others in terms of cultural and sometimes physical characteristics.? Commonly recognized groups of this sort in the United States today include American Indians, Jews, Latinos, Chinese, African Americans, and European Americans. ethnic group 3. The number of ethnic groups within most small-scale societies. (Hint: small-scale societies include those with foraging, pastoral, or horticultural subsistence bases.) one 4. The pioneering 19th century English anthropologist who was able to demonstrate conclusively that biological race and culture are not the same thing. E. B. Tylor 5. A biological subspecies, or variety of a species, consisting of a more or less distinct population with anatomical traits that distinguish it clearly from other similar groups. (Hint: you are looking for a term that biologists might use in studying variation within a species.) race 6. The reason that physical anthropologists most likely would say that our human races are not biological realities. We are biologically an extremely homogenous species genetically. The supposed racial traits such as skin color don’t cluster together only in single distinct groups of people—they are often found extensively in other populations as well. All of us could be classified into a number of different races, depending on what genetic traits are selected. 7. Regions of the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where dark brown skin color is found among non-African populations. Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Guinea, and elsewhere in the Southwest Pacific. 8. The reason that one’s physical appearance does not always coincide with the “race” they claim to be in North America today. (Hint: think about people who