Sentence examples for racial categorisation from inspiring English sources

Most importantly, however, this story highlights the fallacy of racial categorisation.

By contrast, racial categorisation varies historically and cross-culturally, and racial oppression is not a universal feature of human cultures.

Fantasy tends to be built around some kind of racial categorisation system: human, elf, orc, dwarf.

Clearly, racial categorisations carry weight in real life.

But while these journeys into the past are essentially personal, they raise broader issues about racial authenticity and the genetic basis for racial categorisations.

Paul Gilroy, the Anthony Giddens sociology professor at the London School of Economics, says: "To make all these claims is to realign science with the racial categorisations of the 18th century".

The reality is that racial categorisations are based on the most of superficial factors such as skin colour – which actually have little to do with one's genetic and ethnic make-up.

Focussing on circumventing the use of racial categorisations in biomedicine, they argue for a rigorous separation of existing population identities and genetic clustering, by creating new 'categories of genetic similarities' for biomedical purposes.

Also, it relaxed the rigid racial and social categorisations of colonial Indonesia.

χ test for differences in the distribution of genotypes across racial ethnic groups are significant for the three-level categorisation strategy presented here (19/19, 19/non-19, non-19/non-19) and for the categorisation used by Rosen et al, (1998 19/1919 vs non-19).

The same categorisation still exists, but it is now left up to individuals.Given that coloureds were formerly regarded as racial misfits, once dismissed by the wife of former president F. W. de Klerk, Marike, as "non-persons…the leftovers", one might have expected the number of South Africans wishing to describe themselves as such to plummet.