Farba slov: odlišný význam slova rasa v USA, vo Veľkej Británii a v kontinentálnej Európe
Color of Words: The Different Meaning of the Word Race in the USA, Great Britain and Continental Europe

Summary/Abstract: In contemporary research on the word race, there is no consensus on what race actually is. Moreover, scholarly research has stated that the notion of race does not apply to the human species. However, as soon as race enters political discourse, it becomes so “self-evident” that it does not raise the question of what we are talking about when we talk about race. This paper deals with the issue that there are a number of different meanings of the word race, focusing primarily on the difference between the “Anglo-American” meaning of the word race and that used in continental Europe. The paper argues that the meaning of race depends on the cultural, social and historical context of a given country, making race a fluid and context-shifting concept whose meanings are not compatible with each other.

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