ANTH 195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: List Of Ethnic Groups In China And Taiwan, Caster Semenya, International Association Of Athletics Federations
Document Summary
China recognizes 56 ethnic groups in the naion. They are based on: common territory, language, economy, psychological nature . If we are likely to see in ethnicity an idenity based on shared blood, and in race an idenity based on shared physical characterisics, in naionalism we see shared heritage and experience taken as the basis of the state. Sex-a term used to refer to the biological diferences between male and female. Gender-a term used to refer to the social classiicaion of masculine and feminine. Similar to race in the sense that we perceive an overlap between the biological and cultural. Sex and gender are not as ixed as we treat them. Wide cross-cultural variaion in the manner in which gender is deined/perceived. She won the 800 meters at the berlin world championships in august 2009. The iaaf on the basis of physical characterisics ordered gender tests. Intersex-group of people has some mixture of male and female characterisics.
