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ethnic groups

n. (ethnic group English)

Usage examples of "ethnic groups".

Bud ended up regretting having asked, because the answer turned out to be a great deal of general hoo-ha about these Parsis, who evidently wanted to make very sure no one mistook them for dotheads or Pakis or Arabs- not that they had any problem with those very fine ethnic groups, mind you.

Incidents of clashes between Serbs and other ethnic groups in the Balkans, and between the various religious factions, had all but ceased as well.

The diffusion of the Kurds made Turkey more a nation than an unstable compound of regionally based ethnic groups.

Less positively, these restaurants usually catered to different classes or ethnic groups, helping sustain a widely fragmented and heterogeneous society.

This might require limiting opposition forces to operations within the areas where their ethnic groups are dominant.

Martha and Serrador both believed that an organized revolt by two of the nation's five major ethnic groups-especially if those groups were well armed and better prepared than in the 1980's-would not only be enormously destructive but would have a good chance of succeeding.

Men would pour in to the Center's so private, so secluded, so sacrosanct grounds fr om all over the city: men from many ethnic groups so it couldn't be blamed on his section.

The popular nationalist movements in those states reflect secular identities with a populist anti-Russian bent, and the more liberal ones attempt to foster coexistence among the different religious and ethnic groups.

The resulting tangle of territories defined by ethnic groups, religions, and nationalistic loyalties made even the most convoluted gerrymanderings of political districts back in the States look tame by comparison.

It turns out that, like all ethnic groups that have been consistently screwed for a long time, the Inner Qwghlmians have great music.

All but one of the world's six most populous nations are melting pots that achieved political unification recently, and that still support hundreds of languages and ethnic groups.

Consider: most colonies grew from religious or ethnic groups or political dissidents who withdrew into space to live in their own narrow communities.

They said that we must become like other Americans, let ourselves be assimilated as the other ethnic groups were doing.

They all speak different languages, you know, all those different ethnic groups.