Race and religion in american culture essay
{"Image DocumentName": "What\u2019s the difference between Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Religion?", "Image ImageDescription": "Race is: A socially constructed idea created by western Europeans following exploration across the world to account for differences among people and justify colonization, conquest, enslavement, and social hierarchy among humans. The term is used to refer to groupings of people according to common origin or background and associated with perceived biological markers. Among humans there are no races except the human race. The DNA of two humans chosen at random generally varies by less than 0.1 percent. Ethnicity is: term for the group of people in a given geographic region, including their language, heritage, religion and customs. To be a member of an ethnic group is to conform to some or all of those practices. Examples: American Indians. Latinos. Culture is: a shared system of learned and shared values, beliefs and rules of conduct. Examples: Football culture. American Culture. Pennsylvania Dutch. Religion: an organized collection of beliefs, cultural, systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Examples: Christian. Jewish. Muslim. In biology, races are genetically distinct populations within the same species; they typically have relatively minor morphological and genetic differences. Although humans are sometimes divided into races, the morphological variation between races is not indicative of major differences in DNA. For example, recent genetic studies show skin color may drastically change in as few as 100 generations, spanning 2,500 years, as a result of environmental influences. Furthermore, the DNA of two humans chosen at random generally varies by less than 0.1 percent. This is less genetic variation than other types of hominids (such as chimpanzees and orangutans), leading some scientists to describe all humans as belong to the same race \u2014 the human race.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}