Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Ethnic character, background, or affiliation.
- noun An ethnic group.
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- noun The common characteristics of a group of people.
- noun An ethnic group.
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- noun an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties
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Examples
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Marrying within ethnicity is a way of moving beyond that, he said.
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You start off by saying racism is always about colour, correct, it's about race, then throw out a social construct term ethnicity from the Greek ethnos meaning nation or tribe which is not about race either but instead just social grouping of similarity.
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Excluding some citizens from running in elections because of their ethnicity is a ludicrously backward concept.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Jerry - I'm not accusing the officer of racial profiling, I am rather saying that my ethnicity is an inseverable part of my identity, because society has made it that way (when you ask your friends to describe people, how often is ethnicity a part of that, just naturally?).
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Granted, its a peculiar form of racism – deny someone an opportunity on the basis of his ethnicity because his ethnicity is an asset – but its arguably even more sinister than straightforward racism ... since now the ethnic minority is not only discriminated against, but is considered simultaneously privileged.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation 2010
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Excluding some citizens from running in elections because of their ethnicity is a ludicrously backward concept.
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Granted, its a peculiar form of racism – deny someone an opportunity on the basis of his ethnicity because his ethnicity is an asset – but its arguably even more sinister than straightforward racism ... since now the ethnic minority is not only discriminated against, but is considered simultaneously privileged.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation 2010
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Neither the term ethnicity nor nationalism were originally mine, but the accuser’s.
Identity and freedom 2009
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“Comparing life expectancy without looking at differences in ethnicity and lifestyles is ridiculous.”
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Comparing life expectancy without looking at differences in ethnicity and lifestyles is ridiculous.
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