Categorizing people on the basis of skin color
a. is mostly a twentieth century phenomenon.
b. has been practiced only by Western Europeans.
c. is a valid approach to racial taxonomy.
d. has a long history and has been practiced by many peoples.
e. began with Christopher Columbus.
D
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
One reason that transnational labor migration rarely alleviates poverty in the country of origin is that __________
a. populations continue to expand much faster than people leave b. the best educated and most highly skilled segments of society usually migrate c. labor migrants rarely send money back to their home country d. there is no relationship between migration and poverty
Which of the following statements about the concept of race in Brazil is FALSE?
A. Racial classification in Brazil is built around the concept of hypodescent. B. A person's race can change from day to day. C. The perception of biological races is influenced not just by their physical phenotype but by how they dress and behave. D. There are more than 500 different terms used to describe phenotypes. E. The large number of racial categories in Brazil does not easily lend itself to socioeconomic discrimination based on race.