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What is the life of an average 21 year old japanese girl. How do they eat, when do they eat, how much do they walk, what is their daily schedules?
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I was in Japan for 2 months. I was so surprised by their culture. People are so humble and they value their culture. I met high school students in trains and they were eager to talk to me. Many of them didn't speak good English, but they knew the basics. I also saw many teenagers following western culture. They were dressed like American teenagers and they were smoking and had red and blue hair.
Older generation seemed calm. People keep street clean. I saw a foreigner throwing trash on the street and an elderly gentleman came and picked up after him.
I was in Japan for 2 months. I was so surprised by their culture. People are so humble and they value their culture. I met high school students in trains and they were eager to talk to me. Many of them didn't speak good English, but they knew the basics. I also saw many teenagers following western culture. They were dressed like American teenagers and they were smoking and had red and blue hair.
Older generation seemed calm. People keep street clean. I saw a foreigner throwing trash on the street and an elderly gentleman came and picked up after him.
What is the difference between Race and Ethnicity?
Q. I have always thought that race meant your background by birth and Ethnicity is similar to culture but usually affiliated with a certain race.
Answer
Ethnicity is your culture. It has nothing to do with race. To wit: blacks & whites can be "Hispanic". But of course, that is an overview: Hispanics from Mexico like different cuisine than those of Columbia or Spain.
Race has been defined for so long as red, yellow, black, white, or brown peoples. Obviously people don't google pix of these different peoples: place them next to each other and it is difficult to differentiate amongst red, yellow, and white (unless they are wearing "native" garb).
Another common mistake is that whites are the only ones with blue eyes or blonde hair; just google it. The Australian bushmen have a high incidence of blonde hair! Africans sometimes have blue eyes. Native Americans can have blue eyes. After all, hair/eye color are determined by mutations; it is NOT a racial thing, but simply a change in genes.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blond
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article735078.ece
http://www.city-data.com/forum/history/585163-blond-hair-2.html
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/214-the-blonde-map-of-europe/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color
You will find that, just as on Yahoo! answers, one "expert" will say one thing, another "expert" will claim just the opposite. Some things are so ingrained in history as to disprove all those who claim these things are race delineated. E.g., during WWII, a Japanese could "read" infrared signals used by the U.S. Navy. He was an aborrent blue-eyed (not mixed) Japanese whose eyes could see infrared!
From Yahoo! dictionary:
NOUN:
Ethnic character, background, or affiliation.
An ethnic group.
Race
NOUN:
A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
A genealogical line; a lineage.
Humans considered as a group.
Biology
An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies.
A breed or strain, as of domestic animals.
A distinguishing or characteristic quality, such as the flavor of a wine.
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ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Old French, from Old Italian razza, race, lineage
Usage Note:
The notion of race is nearly as problematic from a scientific point of view as it is from a social one. European physical anthropologists of the 17th and 18th centuries proposed various systems of racial classifications based on such observable characteristics as skin color, hair type, body proportions, and skull measurements, essentially codifying the perceived differences among broad geographic populations of humans. The traditional terms for these populationsCaucasoid (or Caucasian), Mongoloid, Negroid, and in some systems Australoidare now controversial in both technical and nontechnical usage, and in some cases they may well be considered offensive. (Caucasian does retain a certain currency in American English, but it is used almost exclusively to mean "white" or "European" rather than "belonging to the Caucasian race," a group that includes a variety of peoples generally categorized as nonwhite.) The biological aspect of race is described today not in observable physical features but rather in such genetic characteristics as blood groups and metabolic processes, and the groupings indicated by these factors seldom coincide very neatly with those put forward by earlier physical anthropologists. Citing this and other pointssuch as the fact that a person who is considered black in one society might be nonblack in anothermany cultural anthropologists now consider race to be more a social or mental construct than an objective biological fact.
Ethnicity is your culture. It has nothing to do with race. To wit: blacks & whites can be "Hispanic". But of course, that is an overview: Hispanics from Mexico like different cuisine than those of Columbia or Spain.
Race has been defined for so long as red, yellow, black, white, or brown peoples. Obviously people don't google pix of these different peoples: place them next to each other and it is difficult to differentiate amongst red, yellow, and white (unless they are wearing "native" garb).
Another common mistake is that whites are the only ones with blue eyes or blonde hair; just google it. The Australian bushmen have a high incidence of blonde hair! Africans sometimes have blue eyes. Native Americans can have blue eyes. After all, hair/eye color are determined by mutations; it is NOT a racial thing, but simply a change in genes.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blond
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article735078.ece
http://www.city-data.com/forum/history/585163-blond-hair-2.html
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/214-the-blonde-map-of-europe/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color
You will find that, just as on Yahoo! answers, one "expert" will say one thing, another "expert" will claim just the opposite. Some things are so ingrained in history as to disprove all those who claim these things are race delineated. E.g., during WWII, a Japanese could "read" infrared signals used by the U.S. Navy. He was an aborrent blue-eyed (not mixed) Japanese whose eyes could see infrared!
From Yahoo! dictionary:
NOUN:
Ethnic character, background, or affiliation.
An ethnic group.
Race
NOUN:
A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
A genealogical line; a lineage.
Humans considered as a group.
Biology
An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies.
A breed or strain, as of domestic animals.
A distinguishing or characteristic quality, such as the flavor of a wine.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Old French, from Old Italian razza, race, lineage
Usage Note:
The notion of race is nearly as problematic from a scientific point of view as it is from a social one. European physical anthropologists of the 17th and 18th centuries proposed various systems of racial classifications based on such observable characteristics as skin color, hair type, body proportions, and skull measurements, essentially codifying the perceived differences among broad geographic populations of humans. The traditional terms for these populationsCaucasoid (or Caucasian), Mongoloid, Negroid, and in some systems Australoidare now controversial in both technical and nontechnical usage, and in some cases they may well be considered offensive. (Caucasian does retain a certain currency in American English, but it is used almost exclusively to mean "white" or "European" rather than "belonging to the Caucasian race," a group that includes a variety of peoples generally categorized as nonwhite.) The biological aspect of race is described today not in observable physical features but rather in such genetic characteristics as blood groups and metabolic processes, and the groupings indicated by these factors seldom coincide very neatly with those put forward by earlier physical anthropologists. Citing this and other pointssuch as the fact that a person who is considered black in one society might be nonblack in anothermany cultural anthropologists now consider race to be more a social or mental construct than an objective biological fact.
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