Answer:
The idea of race, ethnicity and nationality comes down to how open minded or xenophobic a person is or feels at certain moment to consider a social circle.
Scientifically, meaning biologically or genetically speaking, there is no such thing as race; in ancient times when people had almost no understanding of biology or life evolution, they used to explain phenomena by considering only external isolated facts and then generalize from that, leaving most information out
(little science behind it),
that was how someone occurred to categorize humanity based only on a few external traits and then associated those with a bunch of regions they knew about, which was basically a whimsical, fickle and shallow thing to do.
Identify yourself with a group is a matter of sympathy or/and empathy; it's just being conscious about similarities and differences, being conscious about oneness and otherness, about your reality and the reality of others, which might sound ambiguous but it's the idea of being a part and the whole at the same time, or being part of the whole and being able to tell.
Being able to identify similarities and differences is a natural and inevitable thing to do for humans and that's ok, now if we go to the extremes and move too heavy with fear or entitlement, an then we add excessive passion to that mix we might end up loosing track of reality and existential crisis which can lead to isolation and social segregation, whether is voluntary or enforced, that is when people face bigotry and prejudice, specially if t's backed by institutional power, focusing on what makes us different instead of what makes us the same, and the rest is history.
Once people loose track of reality and is not able to find (being conscious of) the huge similarities but focuses on little differences, a whole cracks and divides, but empathy fosters sympathy which can lead to unity.
Explanation:
Race, ethnicity, and nationality are all that makes a person who they are. Who people are, what they look like is all connected to these traits and cultures. They define who we are as Americans, as Native Americans, African Americans, Canadians, Mexican, they make people different, but they also help bring us together. Race, ethnicity, and nationality impact each other because they are commonly connected when describing society. Commonly, the idea of the same race and the same ethnicity implies that the people belong to the same nationality, however, in recent times ethnicity and races started mixing more and more as we have the culture of globalism and multi-culturalism. But more than that race, ethnicity, and nationality allow us to connect with people. people who are like us. Race allows us to connect to people through a commonplace of origin, ethnicity through a common culture, and nationality through a common country and pride of that country.
