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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / Sociology | | English term or phrase: nation, ethnicity, race | | What is the right translation for the terms nation, ethnicity, race? |
| | | 민족, 종족성, 인종 | Explanation:
nation: 민족, nation state: 민족국가 or 국민국가
"Nation" doesn't have to be a country(국가). For examples, "Scots" and "Scotland" in the UK are a nation but is not a country. Korean are a nation but there are two countries in the Korean peninsular.
ethnicity: 종족성, ethnic: 종족, 민족(not in the academic circle)
race: 인종
Those are the standard translations in Socio-Cultural Anthropology.
Cf.
government: 정부
state: 1) 미국의 주 2) academic term for country 국가 |
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