The social context of prejudice and discrimination because of race or ethnic background is common throughout the world. ... Anthropological arbitrary definition of race recognizes three major racial divisions among human beings: Caucasian (basically all whites); Mongolian (basically all Asian or yellow skinned people); and Negroid (those with dark skin, but from Africa). Racism still persists in the U.S. despite a civil rights movement of more than 50 years duration and major social change. The myth of race, however, remains a powerful force in social life. ... On the positive side, the cur...

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Introduction: Traditionally the phenomena ethnicity is intimately related with the field of anthropology. ... According to Yelvington- ethnicity is an aspect of social relationship between agents who consider themselves as being culturally distinctive from members of other groups with whom they have a minimum of regular interaction. It is a social identity characterized by metaphoric or fictive kinship. ... Indeed, social, political, and economic bases of discrimination were initiated between these groups by the colonial Belgians after World War II th...

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Gilderhus, author of History and Historians and expert on the subject, states in his book "History as a field of knowledge is broad given that there are virtually infinite possibilities to history inquiry...you can fill in the blanks that's what makes history come alive is that you may seek to research your interests. " Professor John Ulloa, instructor of history and anthropology, states "History is like a multifaceted diamond. ... Depending on what race you are, your social, political, and economic ways of life can be effected. ... Language is socially inherited it does not exist apart ...

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