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What is the difference between ethnicity and nationality? How are these concepts understood in the United States? What is ethnocentrism? Is it possible to avoid ethnocentrism? If so, how? If not, why not?

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I deem ethnicity as more of one's cultural, ethnic, or racial background(s). Instead, I classify nationality as the country of one's origin or homeland. For example, since I was born in America, I am an American by nationality, but I am Irish-American, German American, and Native American as my ethnicities.

In America, I feel like it is tricky because we want to celebrate our nationality as Americans, but we also ...

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