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What are the main differences between Race, Ethnicity and Nationality? - -race: the assumption if differences based on real or imagined physical characteristics (racism) -ethnicity: group of people that have something in common with each other like where they are from, language, etc (nativism) -nationality: historically, where you were born. Today, it's where you hold your citizenship How are they different than you originally thought? - -set up racial and ethnic hierarchies -white Protestant on top, black Muslim on bottom What does the United States do with these categories? - -set up racial and ethnic hierarchies (white Protestant on top, black Muslim on bottom) Why is the creation of the "Other" important? - US creates the "other", which is anyone other than ppl in power (WASPs) WASPs place ppl on a ladder The more different you are, the lower you are on hierarchies Ethnicities constantly change on scale WASP - -White -Anglo -Saxon -Protestant What are the waves of immigration and who came during those waves?Which was the largest? - 1. Formative Wave (English, Africans, Germans, etc. come) 2. First Wave (Irish, Chinese, Germans) 3. Second Wave (Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, Russians, Japanese) 4. Third Wave (Everybody)