Do you know the difference between Ethnicity and Race?

Lol...I experienced the opposite side of the spectrum. I am Puerto Rican but look white and people give me weird looks when I tell them what I am. People don't understand the difference in cultural background and your physical background. On paperwork on race I select white and then ethnicity I choose either "other" or the rare chance they have it I choose Puerto Rican.

Race is an overarching term, i.e. Native American or European/Caucasian. For the ethnicity, it is a subcategory of the race, i.e. Inuit is a subcategory of Native American and Slavic is a subcategory of European/Caucasian. However, it gets really muddy if you look closer into it. Mexicans should be considered Native Americans as well since their ancestors existed in the Americas before Europeans came. What about the Caribbean islanders as well? Where do they fit, would they be considered African American, Native American, or Hispanic? Also what about Iranian/Persian, many in Iran are considered white/Caucasian, however they are not European. Ethnicity is more related to culture and language, but there are many relationships between Indian, Persian, and English/Germanic languages! A little more on race, and it's been discussed in the thread that race is a social construct created during the 18th-19th century to classify different peoples. People utilized race to justify imperialistic and colonial ambitions leading to many of the problems still being dealt with today. I believe classification according to race or ethnicity is an outdated and overly complex concept and if we want to move past the racial issues we face as a society, we need to stop seeing each other as certain races or ethnicity, and more that we are simply human beings.

Well I'm Puerto Rican, born and raised but just recently I took the DNA test from Ancestry.com and found out that I'm 44% European(including 3% Irish), 22% African, and 12% Indian from the Caribbean.