Explain how ethnic, cultural, and racial categories are too simplistic to account for most behavior

What will be an ideal response?


Not all members of a given category are alike. In fact, degree of acculturation is a better predictor of some behaviors than is ethnicity. In addition, different variables may interact to generate behaviors and attitudes that are unpredictable from the variables individually. Further, the use of categories is inconsistent, so we aren't always sure what a category means or why an individual is placed in it. Finally, different behaviors and attitudes within groups are often better attributable to variables like socioeconomic status, fluency in English, nature of one's peers, etc.

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