what a troublesome question... :P - Feed Post by mog86uk

what a troublesome question... :P

posted by mog86uk October 4, 2014 at 11:44am

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  PandaCoder

  Indeed.

  October 4, 2014 at 1:14pm
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  beeant

  (´･_･`)

  October 4, 2014 at 3:06pm
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  ssh4

  人種 - race (of people)、民族 - people, race, nation. http://www.berlitz.co.jp/wm/09atwork/0219.htm

  October 4, 2014 at 5:33pm
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  ssh4

  ちょっと違う　＾＿＿＾

  October 4, 2014 at 5:34pm
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  azza3695

  i just looked at the dictionary for that first symbol <<learning katakana...its nationality suffix
  

  October 4, 2014 at 5:55pm
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  mog86uk

  @ssh4 That was a perfect link you found for this! :D
  Interesting to read the clear distinction between "race" and "ethnicity".
  
  I've always disliked the actual word "race", which, in my opinion, seems a really empty, pointless term. For instance: say a country/continent eventually reaches a point where 99.9% of its population have bright-green eyes, are those people now going to be known as "the green-eyed race"? Then there's other terms like "the human race"... So the word "race" just sounds like an almost meaningless concept.
  
  Those two kanji compound words terms are pretty clear:
  人種 =　person　+　variety/kind/quality/origin/seed
  民族 =　people/nation/subjects　+　tribe/family
  
  Those compounds seem clear that 人種 = "race" and 民族 = "ethnicity".

  October 6, 2014 at 6:50am