But, particularly in the United States and Canada, the racial or ethnic classification also refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have African ancestry, or to exhibit cultural traits associated with being " African-American ".

This may also be done with racial, religious, or ethnic favoritism ; for instance, Alawites in Syria have a disproportionate share of power in the government and business there.

Mexican Americans were not identified as a racial / ethnic category prior to the 1980 US Census, when the term " Hispanic " was first used in census reports.

The shared Spanish language, Catholic faith, close contact with their political homeland ( Mexico ) to the south, a history of labor segregation, ethnic exclusion and racial discrimination encourage a united Chicano or Mexican folkloric tradition in the United States.

Classes were used to identify people with specific racial or ethnic heritage.

The ordinary meaning is murder by government of people due to their national, ethnic, racial, or religious group membership.

* racial, ethnic, national groups

Ethnology ( from the Greek, ethnos meaning " people, nation, race ") is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and / or national divisions of humanity.

The Christian egalitarian view holds that the Bible teaches the fundamental equality of women and men of all racial and ethnic mixes, all economic classes, and all age groups, based on the teachings and example of Jesus Christ and the overarching principles of scripture.

Increased focus has been given to, " disparate feminisms, nationalisms, and media in various locations and across class, racial, and ethnic groups throughout the world ".

Plenge believed that ethnic solidarity ( volksgemeinschaft ) would replace class division and that " racial comrades " would unite to create a socialist society in the struggle of " proletarian " Germany against " capitalist " Britain.

Genocide is " the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group ", though what constitutes enough of a " part " to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars.

More recently, ethnic conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and genocide in Rwanda have been described as mass-based hate crimes, but the term " hate crime " did not really begin to be used until after World War II and the end of most major government-sanctioned racial cleansing projects that had been linked with official fascism.

Judaism classically draws no distinction in its laws between religious and ostensibly non-religious life ; Jewish religious tradition does not distinguish clearly between religious, national, racial, or ethnic identities.

They also prohibit public expression that insults a person or a group on account of national, ethnic, racial, or religious affiliation or the lack of a religious affiliation.

The criminal charge of " Provoking ethnic, racial and religion based animosity and intolerance " carries a minimum six months prison term and a maximum of ten years.

Among the most controversial issues related to the study of intelligence is the observation that intelligence measures such as IQ scores vary between ethnic and racial groups and sexes.

Kenya has a very diverse population that includes most major ethnic, racial and linguistic groups found in Africa.

He was an African American pursuing rock, which by the late ' 60s had few minorities because they were increasingly pigeonholed in pre-determined, segregated genre roles based on their racial and ethnic backgrounds ( with Santana and Jimi Hendrix two notable exceptions ).

These surveys require the use of sample weights ( see below ) to produce proper estimates across all racial and ethnic groups.

At the beginning of the 1930s, the Nazi Party's rise to power increased tensions between Germany, the Soviet Union and other countries with ethnic Slavs, which were considered " Untermenschen " according to Nazi racial ideology.

The increasing emphasis during the 19th century on the ethnic and racial origins of the nation, led to a redefinition of the nation state in these terms.

National-socialist racial ideology cast the Soviet Union as populated by " Untermenschen ," ethnic Slavs ruled by their " Jewish Bolshevik " masters.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries anthropologists used a typological model to divide people from different ethnic regions into races, ( e. g. the Negroid race, the Caucasoid race, the Mongoloid race, the Australoid race, and the Capoid race which was the racial classification system as defined in 1962 by Carleton S. Coon ).

Other racial and ethnic members include African-Americans ( 3. 1 % of the total membership of the denomination ), Asians ( 2. 3 %), Hispanics ( 1. 2 %), Native Americans ( 0. 2 %), and others ( 0. 3 %).

Statistics from Portuguese administration in the 1960s stated that the racial composition of the inhabitants was 78 % of mestiços, 21 % of “ Africans ” ( i. e. blacks ) and 1 % of “ Europeans ” ( i. e. whites ).

" As a practical matter, the stops display a measurable racial disparity: black and Hispanic people generally represent more than 85 percent of those stopped by the police, though their combined populations make up a small share of the city ’ s racial composition.

Omaha's four television news stations were found not to represent the city's racial composition in a 2007 study.

As of 2010, Allegany County had a racial and ethnic population composition of 88. 16 % Non-Hispanic whites, 8. 03 % Blacks, 0. 14 % Native Americans, 0. 76 % Asians, 0. 04 % Pacific Islanders, 0. 08 % Non-Hispanics who reported some other race, 1. 47 % Non-Hispanics who reported two or more races and 1. 44 % Hispanics.

According to the 2006 – 2008 American Community Survey, the racial composition of Memphis was:

However Karin Westerman drew parallels with 1990s Britain: a class system that was breaking down but defended by those whose power and status it upheld ; the multi-ethnic composition of Hogwarts ' students ; the racial tensions between the various intelligent species ; and school bullying.

The ethnic and racial composition of the population was 40. 1 % non-Hispanic white, 0. 7 % African American, 1. 0 % Asian, 5. 3 % Native American, 0. 3 % non-Hispanics reporting some other race, 5. 4 % reporting two or more races and 51. 9 % Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Redlining has helped preserve segregated living patterns for blacks and whites in the United States, because discrimination motivated by prejudice is often contingent on the racial composition of neighborhoods where the loan is sought and the race of the applicant.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 50. 4 % Native American, 45. 8 % white, 0. 3 % Asian, 0. 2 % African American and 2. 3 % reporting two or more races.

The racial composition of the town was 72. 8 % White, 9. 7 % Black or African American, 0. 3 % Native American, 11. 9 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 2. 7 % some other race, and 2. 7 % of two or more races.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 34. 9 % non-Hispanic white, 13. 4 % black or African American, 1. 7 % Native American, 0. 7 % Asian, 0. 1 % Pacific Islander, 0. 1 % non-Hispanic reporting some other race, 2. 7 % reprting two or more races and 49. 2 % Hispanic or Latino.

2005 Census estimates show the racial composition of the county as being 77. 6 % non-Hispanic whites, 11. 8 % Hispanic, 8. 7 % African-American and 1. 3 % Asian.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 91. 0 % Non-Hispanic white, 1. 3 % African American, 0. 7 % Native American, 0. 5 % Asian, 0. 1 % Non-Hispanics of some other race, 1. 9 % reporting two or more races and 5. 1 % Hispanic or Latino.

According to the 2010 Census, the racial composition of Virginia Beach was as follows:

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 33. 3 % non-Hispanic white, 0. 1 % black or African American, 60. 4 % non-Hispanic Native American, 1. 1 % Hispanic Native American, 0. 4 % Asian, 0. 1 % Pacific Islander, 0. 2 % from some other race and 4. 0 % from two or more races.

According to the 2006 – 2008 American Community Survey, the racial composition of Arlington was as follows:

Its ethnic and racial composition was 82. 8 % non-Hispanic white, 9. 6 % black or African American, 0. 5 % Native American, 1. 3 % Asian, 0. 1 % Pacific Islander, 0. 1 % non-Hispanics reporting some other race, 3. 4 % reporting two or more races and 2. 8 % Hispanic or Latino.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 53. 3 % white ( 44. 0 % non-Hispanic white ), 23. 6 % black ( 22. 9 % non-Hispanic black ), 2. 7 % Korean, 2. 6 % Asian Indian, 2. 0 % Vietnamese, 3. 3 % other Asian, 0. 1 % Pacific Islander, 8. 8 % some other race ( 0. 3 % non-Hispanic of some other race ) and 3. 1 % from two or more races.

The last quarter-century has seen significant change in the racial composition of the county's population.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 44. 9 % non-Hispanic white, 9. 0 % black or African American, 1. 1 % Native American, 0. 1 % Asian, 2. 1 % Pacific Islander ( all of whom where Guamanian or Chamorro ), 36. 8 % reporting some other race and 3. 0 % from two or more races.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 87. 2 % non-Hispanic white, 0. 4 % black, 1. 9 % Native American, 0. 2 % Asian, 0. 1 % Pacific Islander, 6. 3 % from some other race, 2. 4 % from two or more races and 8. 3 % Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 93. 7 % non-Hispanic white, 0. 3 % African American, 1. 5 % Native American, 0. 7 % Asian, 1. 1 % from some other race, 2. 5 % from two or more races and 1. 3 % Hispanic or Latino or any race.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 92. 5 % non-Hispanic white, 0. 3 % black or African American, 3. 7 % Native American, 0. 7 % from some other race, 1. 8 % from two or more races ( 1. 6 % of whome reported Native American as one of their races ) and 2. 0 % Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 88. 3 % non-Hispanic white, 0. 8 % black or African American, 0. 2 % Native American, 0. 6 % Asian, 5. 1 % from some other race, 3. 3 % from two or more races and 6. 8 % Hispanic or Latino or any race.