What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

Answer

Race describes biological descent. Ethnicity describes cultural heritage.

ANSWER:

The finish line. Ethnicity is learned, race is inherited.

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Third opinion - Race is just an archaic version of ethnicity. Black is an ethnicity, White is an ethnicity, so is Caucasoid. They're all ethnic constructions.

Fourth opinion- Race means subspecies. One can argue with that there are no 'subspecies' of the Human species, thus meaning that 'race' does not exist, leaving ethnicity as the only characteristic trait of the two in describing a human.