Race is a socially and politically constructed way of grouping people, which differs from country to country. Ethnicity, on the other hand, is a shared cultural worldview and/or people with the same geographical origin. The concept of race is flawed (Hirshman 2004) as it does not have a ‘logical basis … as a social category’.
There is lot of research around stages of racial awareness in young children and how it will influence their own identity. Goodman (1964) explained that children’s racial awareness developed in three stages:
Davis et al(2007) pointed to social developmental theorists who believed that children develop their racial identity in four phases:
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