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 %).

The racial makeup of the city was 98. 10 % White, 0. 46 % Black or African American, 0. 08 % Native American, 0. 11 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 0. 43 % from other races, and 0. 80 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 65. 26 % white and 34. 74 % African American.

The racial makeup of the town was 93. 98 % White, 3. 42 % Black or African American, 0. 30 % Native American, 1. 19 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 0. 46 % from other races, and 0. 60 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 75 % White, 17. 93 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 2. 97 % African American, 0. 06 % Native American, 1. 58 % from other races, and 2. 42 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 66. 60 % White, 11. 70 % Black or African American, 0. 20 % Native American, 15. 10 % Asian, 0. 01 % Pacific Islander, 2. 10 % from other races, and 4. 30 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 91. 8 % White, 2. 2 % Black or African American, 0. 3 % Native American, 3. 4 % Asian, 0. 0 % Pacific Islander, 0. 4 % from some other race, and 1. 8 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 96. 55 % White, 0. 21 % Black or African American, 0. 92 % Native American, 0. 63 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 0. 28 % from other races, and 1. 38 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 91. 32 % White, 2. 71 % Black or African American, 0. 13 % Native American, 3. 23 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 1. 39 % from other races, and 1. 19 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city is 81. 1 % White, 1. 9 % Black or African American, 2. 4 % Native American, 2. 1 % Asian, 0. 2 % Pacific Islander, 9. 4 % from other races, and 2. 9 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the village was 97. 91 % White, 0. 09 % Black or African American, 0. 27 % Native American, 0. 73 % Asian, 0. 64 % from other races, and 0. 36 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the town was 94. 51 % White, 1. 54 % Black or African American, 0. 16 % Native American, 1. 87 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 0. 80 % from other races, and 1. 08 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 88. 07 % White, 1. 17 % Black or African American, 0. 95 % Native American, 4. 09 % Asian, 0. 16 % Pacific Islander, 2. 86 % from other races, and 2. 69 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city is 97. 38 % White, 0. 82 % Asian, 0. 57 % Black or African American, 0. 20 % Native American, no Pacific Islanders, 0. 26 % from other races, and 0. 77 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the town was 98. 30 % White, 0. 17 % Black or African American, 0. 70 % Native American, 0. 20 % Asian, 0. 07 % from other races, and 0. 57 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 82. 4 % White, 3. 01 % Black or African American, 0. 60 % Native American, 2. 48 % Asian, 0. 12 % Pacific Islander, 3. 61 % from other races, and 2. 53 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the town was 87. 98 % White, 1. 74 % Black or African American, 0. 47 % Native American, 6. 76 % Asian, 0. 06 % Pacific Islander, 0. 88 % from other races, and 2. 09 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the CDP was 85. 27 % White, 2. 25 % Black or African American, 0. 61 % Native American, 8. 18 % Asian, 0. 09 % Pacific Islander, 1. 13 % from other races, and 2. 46 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the town was 95. 41 % White, 0. 71 % Black or African American, 0. 19 % Native American, 0. 22 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 2. 03 % from other races, and 1. 40 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the county was 88. 54 % White, 7. 92 % Black or African American, 0. 40 % Native American, 0. 53 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 0. 83 % from other races, and 1. 74 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the town was 97. 40 % White, 0. 39 % Native American, 0. 87 % Asian, 0. 16 % from other races, and 1. 18 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 61. 2 % White, 23. 7 % African American, 0. 8 % Native American, 3. 7 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 4. 3 % from other races, and 6. 2 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 72. 92 % White, 22. 26 % African American, 0. 95 % Native American, 0. 66 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 1. 56 % from other races, and 1. 63 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the village was 96. 14 % White, 0. 55 % African American, 0. 88 % Native American, 0. 55 % Asian, 0. 66 % from other races, and 1. 21 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 67. 63 % White, 27. 12 % African American, 2. 75 % Asian, 0. 19 % Native American, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 0. 66 % from other races, and 1. 61 % from two or more races.