And universalizing religions continue to gain adherents around the world at the expense of some ethnic religions and traditional religions. So with the spread of English and universalizing religions, ethnicity is likely the best single attribute for the preservation of local diversity. We'll concentrate on Anglo-America. It was originally occupied by many culturally and linguistically different people who were overwhelmed by immigrants and their descendants from the Old World. America doesn't have the homelands of these people who immigrated here but it provides a case study of how distinctive cultural groups partition space and place their claims and imprints on that space.
Race comes the middle-French word for generation.
It's identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor. All three display distinct cultural traditions that originate at particular hearths, but the three are regarded in different ways. Asian is recognized as a distinct race by the US Census Bureau, so Asian is a race and Asian-American as an ethnicity group are basically the same group of people. But, the Asian-American ethnicity lumps together people from many different countries in Asia. Most black Americans are descended from African immigrants and therefore also belong to an African-American ethnicity.