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Can you explain clearly the difference between race and ethnicity?
"Race" and "ethnicity" are both words. They are not "real", in the sense that they could be objectively measured by an unconscious device, like a photometer, or even that ...
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Can you explain clearly the difference between race and ethnicity?
There was an interesting article in Scientific American in 2016 which reported that the consensus among scientists is that race does not reflect the scope of human diversity. This accords with the ...
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Can you explain clearly the difference between race and ethnicity?
"Race" is a term now considered inappropriate and misleading in science and politics, essentially because no such thing exists objectively, but also because of the Holocaust, which cast a ...
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Can you explain clearly the difference between race and ethnicity?
Race
Biological Traits
Ethnicity
Ancestral Origins
Example
Races:
Semite ( People of Shem )
Ancient Egyptians ( Modern Day Coptics )
Ethnicities:
Jewish - Those of the Exodus, which included many ...
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Is gender identical to sex?
Gender with any meaning beyond grammar (e.g. le chat court partout comme un fou: sous la chaise belle, sur le canapé grand...) is a neologism adopted by some academics and activists in the late 60s ...
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Is gender identical to sex?
I think the answer to your question is yes. If you travelled back to early human history, the differences between biological males and biological females were probably much starker than they are in ...
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The McDonald's Option
Isn't this like the concept of an ice-breaker question? Just to get the conversation going, one of the participants has to make the first step.
I did not find a good source that defines what the ...
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The McDonald's Option
It's not really a fallacy, sounds more like a bias or at least something from the domain of psychology and behavioral studies. Disclaimer: Not a psychologist...
What also came to mind was "...
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The McDonald's Option
I've learned that in these situations, it's best to just announce some decision, even if it's a bad one.
Note a different possible outcome of this is that the group accepts the bad decision. So this ...
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The McDonald's Option
So, having spent some time as a union representative in a large assembly, I can tell you for sure that the activity in question is consensus decision-making. When a group of people build consensus, ...
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