- connected with or belonging to a group of people that share a cultural tradition
- ethnic background/origin
- ethnic strife/tensions/violence (= between different ethnic groups)
- Our government should reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of our country.
- ethnic Albanians living in Germany
- The country is divided along ethnic lines.
Extra ExamplesTopics People in societyb2- people from different ethnic backgrounds
- This region of Bulgaria has a large ethnic Turkish population.
- I did not want to be classified according to my skin colour or ethnic origin.
- Experience has taught me that our community benefits from expanding ethnic diversity.
- typical of a country or culture that is very different from modern Western culture and therefore interesting for people in Western countries This use can be considered offensive.
- ethnic clothes/jewellery/cooking
Extra Examples- There has been an explosion in the popularity of ethnic crafts.
- There was a stall selling ethnic jewellery from Afghanistan.
- the rising popularity of ethnic foods
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a person not of the Christian or Jewish faith): via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek ethnikos ‘heathen’, from ethnos ‘nation’. Current senses date from the 19th cent.
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