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ethnic

An ethnic group is a group related by race, culture, and/or nationality. The Irish are the largest, but least visible, ethnic minority in Britain. The school has students from over 20 different ethnic backgrounds.

ethnic

(= cultural) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people influenced by ethnic and cultural ties — J.F.Kennedy ethnic food a person who is a member of an ethnic group (= heathen) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam

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Simple sentences

Many ethnic groups traditionally give money as a wedding gift.
Ethnic minorities struggle against prejudice, poverty, and oppression.
Employers cannot refuse to hire workers because of their race, religion, ethnic origin, skin colour, sex, age, marital status, disability or sexual orientation.
In ethnic Iranian foods, you can see many products which are made of milk.
This is a multi-ethnic state.
This is a multi-ethnic country.

Movie subtitles

Cut their teeth on Milosevic's protective detail during the ethnic cleansing of the Yugoslav wars.
Input the ethnic and national factors.
Both demonstrated disbelief in many orthodox religions, in social doctrines, national and ethnic.
And now, after this interesting and instructive prologue,. we are privileged to present a great historic ethnic drama.
People like Eric Clapton were too ethnic.
Now, don't do any ethnic jokes.
My mother was hooked on being ethnic.
But they cannot determine his ethnic background.
Does that hurt, or is that ethnic?
A rare ethnic advantage.
The leaders of four ethnic groups.
They have been promised, as I was, dominion over their ethnic groups on Earth.
Fully employment will be achived, we will not owe anyone, social differences will almost not exist, and our whole country will be flowered and beautifuly arangged garden, united community of nations and ethnic groups.
I didn't change it because I thought ethnic was in.
Diseases of Horses and the novels of Joyce Cary and. Ethnic Choices of the Arabs. Things like that.
All right. I'Il activate the computer link. Input the ethnic and national factors.
It's divided into social, geographic and ethnic groups.
Ethnic?
Ethnic.
That's a regional and ethnic disability I inherit from my ancestors.
Trying to be ethnic?
Sex, violence, the ethnic angle.
Fanatic ethnic or religious or national identifications are difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.
The Romans often assimilated ethnic religions into their own.
After all these years of your ethnic airs about working up here.
As you're aware, sunlight poses a problem for our ethnic group.
Serial killers tend to hunt within their own ethnic groups. He's not a drifter.
Racial differences, religious, ethnic, national backgrounds, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality.
Well, the ape's going to stand around for three hours or so. Then we'll close with the ethnic comedy Of Dugan and Dershowitz.
There's always an interesting cultural, ethnic mix to the hospital staff.
Documents taken away due to ethnic features.
Bro is no good. Too ethnic.

News and current affairs

Last year, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) issued a remarkable report on Ogoniland, a major ethnic homeland in the Niger Delta that has been at the epicenter of conflict between local communities and international oil.
Beatrix, like Franz Joseph, refuses to make ethnic or religious distinctions between her subjects.
This aristocratic tradition of standing above the narrow strains of ethnic nationalism may be the best argument to hang on to royalty a little longer.
But it is the relative success of ethnic minorities and immigrants that is more upsetting to indigenous populations.
Short of unleashing massive and bloody ethnic cleansing - Bosnia, on a continental scale - Americans and others have no choice but to get used to living in increasingly diverse societies.
Brazil is a large, pluralist, multi-ethnic country.
In a world where anti-Semitism and racism fester, where prejudice on national, religious, colored-based, or ethnic grounds foster discrimination, that is the view that best nurtures the rights of all.
We were taken aback and dismayed by reports of actions directed against ethnic Georgians in Russia.
Since then, the Kurds have suffered under the despotic rule of rival ethnic groups.
Military officers are not overwhelmingly communist in their political leanings, not exclusively ethnic Russians, and not necessarily nationalists.
They realize that the al-Saud must choose: continue on the narrow path of repression and ethnic and religious intolerance, or adopt a more open and inclusive policy.
Instead, it bases its legitimacy on rapid economic growth and ethnic Han nationalism.
Lee's premise, from which he never departed, was that, especially in a multi-ethnic society like Singapore, a meritocratic elite must impose social harmony from above.
Unlike recent riots in the United Kingdom, which were inter-ethnic, the confrontations in France put their participants face to face with the police.
The colonial powers' arbitrary demarcation of borders lumped together in one state diverse ethnic groups which may have been historical antagonists.
Indeed, most countries are far more heterogeneous than Burundi but have never fallen into ethnic war.
Second, the bloody 1959 revolution in Rwanda, a country mirroring Burundi's ethnic and social structure, induced Burundi's Tutsi to cling even more tightly to power.
At the same time, Burundi's Hutu saw Rwanda as a role model and believed their ethnic majority should guarantee them de facto control of the country.
Third, successive governments widened the ethnic divide through catastrophically predatory governance.
In France, Nicolas Sarkozy's government has tried to regain popularity with the working class by deporting Roma migrants, a target of widespread hatred and ethnic attacks.
Furthermore, Sein has reached out to the Karen, Kachin, and other ethnic minorities - groups whose members have suffered decades of official persecution and mistreatment.
Although Myanmar is an overwhelmingly Buddhist country, dozens of religious and ethnic communities have long lived there side by side.
It is increasingly identified with the Republican agenda and Israel's evangelical Christian supporters, even though polls have repeatedly shown that Jews are America's most liberal ethnic group.
This offered some protection to minorities at a time of rising ethnic nationalism.
Syria's balkanization among the country's diverse ethnic and religious groups is a clearly predictable result.
China's press was abuzz over Chu and Locke, the first ethnic Chinese men to become US Cabinet Secretaries.

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