ethnicity
ethnic
noun[ C ]
 offensiveuk /ˈeθ.nɪk/ us /ˈeθ.nɪk/
an offensive word for a person belonging to an ethnic minority(= a group of people living in a country where most people are from a different group)少数民族的一员

ethnic | American Dictionary

ethnic
adjective
us/ˈeθ·nɪk/
relating to or characteristic of a large group of people who have the same national, racial, or cultural origins, and who usually speak the same language:
an ethnic neighborhood
She loves ethnic foods, especially Ethiopian and Japanese.

ethnically

adverbus/ˈeθ·nɪk·li/
an ethnically diverse community

ethnic | Business English

ethnic
adjective
uk /ˈeθnɪk/us
relating to a race or national group of people:
The factory's workforce reflects the ethnic mix of the local population.
from a different race, or interesting because characteristic of an ethnic group which is very different from those that are common in western culture:
ethnic food/costumes

ethnically

adverb
ethnically related communities

ethnicity

noun[ U ]/eθˈnɪsɪti/
The law prohibits granting preferential treatment to people based on ethnicity.

Examples of ethnic

ethnic
Within ' the core community of ethnics ', class differences ' were overridden by a common culture and identity ' (pp. 100-1).
Most of the papers focus on specific kingdoms and peoples to elucidate processes of political and ethnic consolidation.
Internationally and locally, race (and/or ethnic difference) and gender remain crucial aspects of conflicts engendered by, or engendering, migration.
Ethnic-based humor was still allowed - even encouraged - as long as it was not overly vicious or two-dimensional in its treatment.
Outcault was in many ways a continuation of the professional, middle-class flaneur tradition in ethnic typing.
Ethnic groups are almost always in contact with other ethnic groups, par ticularly in frontier situations.
Therefore, ethnic dynamics must be considered over a long period of time.
What is unique about education for the "indigenous" children, those who belong to colonized ethnic groups?
Information about social class, ethnic origin, employment status, type of housing tenure, and access to a car was obtained from the subjects.
The ideas of the 1970s, when society had been seen as a system of ethnic groups participating on equal terms, were now finally abandoned.
Is racial/ethnic measurement justified because it helps the state to police and prevent discrimination?
The ethnicity variable indicates the proportion of ethnic minorities in post-communist countries before 1990.
Cross-national studies of economic growth include a war variable to capture effects of political and ethnic factors.
Meanwhile, region is also a rough guide for understanding the ethnic distribution of the country.
They are also similar in ethnic variation and mixture of urban and rural settings.
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