What is the difference between nation and race in law?

Race and ethnicity are only one word apart, but there is an essential difference:

The difference in connotation. Race is a group of people with the characteristics of communal nature formed in the early stage of human development. Nationality refers to a stable community formed by people in history with a common language, a common region, a common economic life, and a common psychological quality expressed in a common culture.

Difference in extension. The same race can belong to different ethnic groups. For example, the Han and Hui in China, the Koreans in Korea, and the Yamato in Japan are all of the yellow race; Many peoples in Europe are Caucasian; Many ethnic groups in southern Africa are black.

It is almost impossible for the same people to belong to different races.

The difference between the signs. Ethnicity is generally divided by physical characteristics such as skin color, hair color and hairstyle, eye color, head shape, face shape, nose type, and blood type. Nationalities, on the other hand, are divided by social factors such as language, region, economic life, and psychological quality.

Differences in attributes. Race was created in the early days of human history when various groups of human beings lived in different geographical environments for a long time, and it is a natural phenomenon, and there is absolutely no distinction between superior and inferior, and the "theory of racial superiority" advocated by racists is an anti-scientific fallacy. The nation is a social entity, and this community of people does not exist since ancient times, nor does it last forever, but is the product of the development of human society to a certain historical stage, and in the future, when the whole world enters the communist era, with the high development and prosperity of various nationalities, ethnic differences will gradually disappear.

Therefore, it is a social attribute.

Quantity. There are three main races in the world: white, yellow and black.

There are many types of ethnic groups, according to rough statistics, there are nearly 200, and the number of people of each ethnic group varies greatly, there are 18 ethnic groups with a population of more than 100 million in the world, of which the Han nationality has the largest population, reaching more than 1 billion people; Ethnic groups with small populations, such as the Tovola in Indonesia, have a population of only a few dozen people.

The distinction between ethnicity and race is as follows.

1. The connotation is different.

Race is a group of people with the characteristics of communal nature formed in the early stage of human development. Nationality refers to a stable community formed by people in history with a common language, a common region, a common economic life, and a common psychological quality expressed in a common culture, so their connotations are different.

2. The epitaxy is different.

The same race can belong to different ethnic groups. For example, the Hui and Han ethnic groups in China, as well as the Koreans in North Korea, and many ethnic groups in Europe are Caucasian; The Yamato people in Japan are all of the yellow race; Many ethnic groups in southern Africa are black. It is almost impossible for the same people to belong to different races.

3. The logo is different.

Ethnicity is generally divided by physical characteristics such as skin color, hair color, blood type, nose shape, head shape, face shape, eye color, and hairstyle. Nationalities, on the other hand, are divided by social factors such as economy, region, language, life, and psychological quality.

4. The attributes are different.

Race was created in the early days of human history when various groups of human beings lived in different geographical environments for a long time, and it is a natural phenomenon, and there is absolutely no distinction between superior and inferior, and the "theory of racial superiority" advocated by racists is an anti-scientific fallacy.

The nation is a social entity, and this community of people does not exist since ancient times, and of course it is not eternal, but the product of the development of human society to a certain historical stage, so it is a social attribute. In the future, when the whole world enters the communist era, with the high development and prosperity of various ethnic groups, ethnic differences will gradually disappear.

5. The quantity is different.

There are three main categories of races in the world: black, white, and yellow. There are many types of ethnic groups, according to approximate statistics, there are nearly 200, and the number of ethnic groups is also very different, there are 18 ethnic groups with a population of more than 100 million in the world, of which the Han population is the largest, has reached more than 1 billion people; Ethnic groups with small populations, such as the Tovola in Indonesia, have a population of only a few dozen.

(1) Different categories: Nationalities belong to the category of history; Race falls under the category of biology.

2) Different research objects: ethnicity studies the community of people with common region, language, economic life and cultural psychology in the process of human historical development; Ethnicity is the study of the results of genetic variation in populations that exist in the spatial distribution of humans.

3) Different attributes: the nation is social; Race is natural.

4) Different times of formation: nations were formed at the end of primitive societies and at the beginning of class societies; Races were formed during the period of Homo sapiens of humans.

5) Different characteristics: Ethnicity is characterized by region, language, economic life and cultural psychology; Ethnicity is characterized by hair, eyes, limb shape, color and facial structure.

The race is large, the ethnic group is small, such as the yellow race, including Indians, Chinese, Mongolians, and American Indians, etc., in terms of nationalities, there are 56 ethnic groups in Chinese alone.

For example, there are 56 ethnic groups in China, but the race is a family.