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Complete 7 pages APA formatted article: In What Way(S), If At All, Do Race And Ethnicity Still Matter. However, these social ideas are so prevalent that we seldom care for their scientific and political importance. Is a white colored and blue eyed person any better than black colored and curly haired person? Is it more than just different variety of genes? Does commonly held idea of beauty and superiority makes a certain group rule and exploit every other group? The answer in certainly no, however, the idea of race and ethnicity is still prevalent in modern world. This paper tries to explore that in what ways, if at all, ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ still matters.

Race and ethnicity are social constructs that refer to particular social group sharing cultural heritage and ancestry devised by oppressive system of race relations. These constructs are justified by ideology where one group takes advantage over other through domination and defines other groups and itself through that supremacy and possession of some selective and arbitrary physical attributes, such as, skin color(Krieger,2000,36).Racism refers to individual or institutional practices which generate and reinforce the oppressive systems of racial differences and relations (Krieger, 2000, 36).Ethnicity is a social construct that is originally devised to discriminate between the “innately” different groups that allegedly classified as an overall same race (Hobsbawm cited in Krieger, 2002).