Ethnicity refers to the cultural practices and out look of a community, within a society. 1 The term is preferable than theories of race and the immigrant based model. Race is defined as a scientifically discredited term, previously used to describe biologically distinct groups of persons who were alleged to have characteristics of an alterable nature.
Social Science now recognised that race is a socially constructed categorisation which specifies rules for the identification of a given group with cultural differences. …