The word ‘race’ had a different meaning, back when Hitler spoke about Germans being the ‘Master Race’. Race was used back then, for what we would call ethnicity. For example, at one time, the British Army asked recruits to identify what ‘race’ they were. The choices were Scottish, English, Welsh, and Cornish. None of those groups would b…
The word ‘race’ had a different meaning, back when Hitler spoke about Germans being the ‘Master Race’. Race was used back then, for what we would call ethnicity. For example, at one time, the British Army asked recruits to identify what ‘race’ they were. The choices were Scottish, English, Welsh, and Cornish. None of those groups would be considered to be a race today, An ethnicity? Perhaps.
These days, the word ‘race’ is used for continental sized population groups and ‘ethnicity’ is used for smaller subdivisions. None of these terms has an exact definition (even the biological term, species doesn’t have an exact definition).
The word ‘race’ had a different meaning, back when Hitler spoke about Germans being the ‘Master Race’. Race was used back then, for what we would call ethnicity. For example, at one time, the British Army asked recruits to identify what ‘race’ they were. The choices were Scottish, English, Welsh, and Cornish. None of those groups would be considered to be a race today, An ethnicity? Perhaps.
These days, the word ‘race’ is used for continental sized population groups and ‘ethnicity’ is used for smaller subdivisions. None of these terms has an exact definition (even the biological term, species doesn’t have an exact definition).