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ethnic minorities

n. (ethnic minority English)

Usage examples of "ethnic minorities".

About 59 percent of the workers are male and 10 percent are members of racial and ethnic minorities.

As usual the ACLU had zeroed in on the true meaning of 9/11: Americans needed to be more tolerant of and sensitive toward ethnic minorities.

Yugoslavia, of course, had so many ethnic minorities that it actually didn't have any group in the majority, so they just gave the whole nation a planet of their own.

They hated ethnic Serbs and Orthodox Christians, but also discriminated against any foreigner and most other ethnic minorities inside Kosovo, such as gypsies, Romanians, Italians, Jews, and Greeks.

I had squatted down on my heels in a corner, in a fashion common amongst Gunni and Nyueng Bao but not common among Vehdna, Shadar or many of the ethnic minorities.

All these ethnic minorities chafing to flex their ethnic and religious muscle, ready to bash the other guy over the head with whatever's available.

And you said it must be a joke, and I said we ought to try and get more ethnic minorities into the Watch.

The day after she made detective, she was called into the DCI's office for a congratulatory chat, and offered the 'perfect' post: co-ordinating the division's ethnic minorities liaison efforts.

She wanted to launch a campaign to raise the consciousness of exploited ethnic minorities, but there was no grant available at the time.

A culture that validates its ethnic minorities boasts of rich pockets of exotic cultural variety.