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The government’s recent directive that public services should be prioritised “on the basis of need, not race” will make it harder and more time consuming to reach New Zealanders with higher needs.

The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 indicated that humans are 99.9 percent identical at the DNA level and that race has no genetic basis (Duello et al., 2021; NHGRI, n.d.). Most ...

Ethnicity is defined as a group of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural, or national experiences. Identity, however, is complex, comprised of how we see ...

The U.S. Census Bureau defines race as a “person’s self-identification with one or more social groups.” The social groups include White, Black, African American, Asian, American Indian and Alaska ...

Race vs ethnicity is a long-standing debate that has confused people around the world for a long time. While these two terms are often used interchangeably, they are distinct in many ways. Race refers ...

Americans of Middle Eastern descent used to have to identify as white on government forms – new categories will change that For the first time in 27 years, the US government is changing how it ...

Changing your ethnicity multiple times throughout your life: that's not all that absurd for millions of people worldwide. For them, ethnicity is not a congenital, rigid notion, but something that ...

The previous chapter defined race, ethnicity, and biomedical research and concluded by discussing the complexity of their intersection. Building on those conceptual foundations, this chapter begins ...