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 %).

According to Joseph Stalin writing in 1913 in Marxism and the National Question: " a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people ;" " a nation is not a casual or ephemeral conglomeration, but a stable community of people "; " a common language is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a nation is formed only as a result of lengthy and systematic intercourse, as a result of people living together generation after generation "; " a common territory is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common economic life, economic cohesion, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common psychological make-up, which manifests itself in a common culture, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Estimated 2006 population is 271, 240, with a racial make-up of 20. 4 % white non-Hispanic, 62. 9 % African American, 5 % Asian, 11. 3 % Hispanic or Latino, 0. 4 % American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0. 1 % Pacific Islander.

The racial make-up was 40. 35 % Non-Hispanic whites, 54. 08 % blacks, 0. 19 % Native Americans, 0. 47 % Asians, 0. 03 % Pacific Islanders and 4. 59 % Hispanics or Latinos.

The racial make-up of the town is 94. 03 % White, 0. 93 % African American, 1. 24 % Native American, 0. 31 % Asian, 0. 00 % Pacific Islander, 1. 13 % from other races, and 2. 37 % from two or more races.

The racial make-up of the CDP was 92. 01 % Native American, 5. 47 % White, 0. 16 % Black or African American, 0. 22 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 0. 63 % from other races, and 1. 47 % from two or more races.

The racial make-up of the city was 81. 6 % White, 2. 4 % Black or African American, 2. 2 % Native American, 2. 00 % Asian, 0. 10 % Pacific Islander, 9. 3 % from other races, and 1. 30 % from two or more races.

The racial make-up of the city was 94. 77 % White, 3. 16 % Black or African American, 0. 36 % Native American, 1. 09 % from other races, and 0. 61 % from two or more races.

The racial make-up of the city was 89. 1 % White, 0. 6 % Black or African American, 0. 7 % Native American, 1. 1 % Asian, 0. 1 % Pacific Islander, 5. 4 % from other races, and 3. 1 % from two or more races.

The racial make-up was 79 % white, 9 % black, 9 % hispanic, 2 % of two or more races, and 1 % other.

The racial and ethnic make-up of the population is 94. 6 % Non-Hispanic white, 1. 7 % African American, 0. 2 % Native American, 0. 7 % Asian, 2. 2 % two or more races and 0. 9 % Hispanic or Latino.

The period between 1950 and 1970 saw a major shift in the city's racial make-up, as the proportion of blacks in the population increased significantly.

The racial make-up of the township was 100 % White.

The racial make-up of the village was 85. 29 % White and 14. 71 % African American.

The racial make-up of the town was 92. 31 % White, 0. 71 % African American, 3. 41 % Native American, 0. 16 % Asian, 0. 71 % from other races, and 2. 70 % from two or more races.

The racial make-up of the borough was 98. 67 % White, 0. 36 % African American, 0. 52 % Asian, 0. 13 % from other races, and 0. 32 % from two or more races.

The racial make-up of the township was 100. 00 % White.

The racial make-up of the CDP was 37. 50 % White, 57. 95 % Native American, 4. 55 % from other races.

Nordicist anthropometrics was used to " improve " the racial make-up of the Germanised section of the population, by absorbing individuals into the German population who were deemed suitably Nordic.

The estimated racial make-up of the town is as follows:

It is claimed, however, that Noose has been intimidated, both politically and criminally, a rumor given significant merit when, despite having no history of racist tendencies in his decisions, he refuses Jake's perfectly reasonable request for a change of venue, further handicapping the defense, as the racial make-up of Ford County virtually guarantees an all-white jury.

The racial make-up was 7, 271, 926 whites, 1, 126, 894 blacks and 2, 658, 675 mulattoes.

The racial make-up of the borough was 89. 9 % White, 1. 0 % African American, 0. 7 % Native American, 6. 8 % Asian, 0. 0 % Pacific Islander, 0. 8 % from other races, and 0. 8 % from two or more races.