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Ethnic

Ethnic meaning

Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins. | Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture. | Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.

Example sentences (20)

By creating an additional layer of privilege, this time ethnic, indirect rule fragmented the racially conscious majority into so many ethnic minorities, in every part of the country setting ethnic majorities against ethnic minorities.

Ethnic conflict and public goods provision A major source of ethnic conflict in multi-ethnic democracies is over the access to state patronage.

For example, ethnic conflict might be a non-violent struggle for resources divided among ethnic groups. citation However, the subject of the confrontation must be either directly or symbolically linked with an ethnic group.

For example, inter-ethnic business organizations serve to connect the business interests of different ethnic groups which would increase their desire to maintain ethnic harmony.

Furthermore, they believed that political boundaries should mirror these alleged racial and ethnic groups, thus justifying ethnic cleansing in order to achieve "racial purity" and also to achieve ethnic homogeneity in the nation-state.

In cities, formal inter-ethnic associations like trade unions, business associations and professional organizations are more effective in encouraging inter-ethnic interactions that could prevent ethnic violence in the future.

Interactions between ethnic groups in formal settings can also help countries torn apart by ethnic violence to recover and break down ethnic divisions.

The Ethnic Council studies and recommends actions to the National Assembly; the National Assembly has to consult with the Ethnic Council before issuing any decisions on ethnic policy.

By limiting applicants to “BIPOC” – Black, Indigenous, people of color – ethnic groups, the program was explicitly designed to favor certain ethnic groups at the expense of others.

Denunciation of tribalism and ethnic exclusiveness is not denunciation of the ethnic communities themselves.

Different versions of the video went viral from the stable of Nigeria sectional or ethnic agenda promoters, an epitome of ethnic champions in Kogi State.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The 120,000 ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh will leave for Armenia as they do not want to live as part of Azerbaijan and fear ethnic cleansing, the leadership of the breakaway region told Reuters on Sunday.

One course, titled “Ethnic Studies: World Geography,” passed by a margin of three votes in favor and one abstention; the other, “History 10 Ethnic Studies World Histories Course,” passed unanimously.

Thirty peacekeepers from a NATO-led force in Kosovo were with ethnic Serb demonstrators on Monday during protests about the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors in northern Kosovo.

To clarify, Some in Russia and in the ethnic Russian minority in Ukraine have expressed the view that the conflict is a result of Ukrainian aggression towards ethnic Russians in Ukraine, particularly in the eastern regions.

With a change of demographics after 2006, it was accepted that since no single ethnic group now commanded an absolute majority, efforts to attract cross-over ethnic votes intensified.

With all the strident charges of ethnic discrimination in a country like Guyana – we’ve always been tethering on the edge of ethnic/racial conflicts.

And with the backing of the US, the UK, and others, they will want the world to ratify the ethnic cleansing that they carried out in Gaza, just as the world ratified the ethnic cleansing that it carried out inside the Green line in 1948.

A Serb government crackdown on Kosovo’s separatist ethnic Albanians killed some 13,000 people, most of them ethnic Albanians.

Just as Little Havana has been recognized as a “point of entry into American life but also a place to escape as one makes progress”, so too can other ethnic enclaves be the necessary gateway for greater cultural and ethnic acceptance and flourishment.