Author Question: What is the difference between majority and minority groups? What will be an ideal ... (Read 89 times)

ts19998 · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

What is the difference between majority and minority groups?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What is the difference between race and ethnic group?

What will be an ideal response?

triiciiaa · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 1, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A majority groups is a group that is culturally, economically, and politically dominant; the minority group is the group that is culturally, economically, and politically subordinate.

Answer to Question 2

A race is a category of people treated as distinct on account of physical characteristics to which social importance has been assigned. An ethnic group is a category whose members are thought to share a common origin and to share important determinants of a common culture.