The racial categories used by the U.S. Census Bureau, e.g. White, Black, Hispanic, Alaskan Native, American Indian, Asian, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, are large catchall categories that include diverse people. To compound the situation, inclusion in one or another of these categories is usually based on self-identification. Thus, in reality what we are dealing with are not
biological categories at all, but rather are:
a. hypothetical categories.
b. cultural constructs.
c. social scientific jargon.
d. ethnic categories.
e. politically correct labels.
b
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a. hunters. b. trackers. c. teachers. d. chauffeurs.
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a. marketing new technologies b. developing new biofuels c. educating younger adults in creative and innovative industries d. educating unemployed workers in more technologically advanced professions e. training workers in foreign languages so that they could work with multinational corporations
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a. traits shared between species due to a shared evolutionary history b. analogous traits shared by unrelated species c. traits shared due to convergent evolution d. features that a species possesses that distinguish them from all related species
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a. Colombia b. Brazil c. Peru d. Ecuador