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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ethnicity

"ethnic character," 1953, from ethnic + -ity. Earlier it meant "paganism" (1772).

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ethnicity

n. The common characteristics of a group of people.

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ethnicity

n. an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties; "ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations"

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Ethnicity (album)

Ethnicity is the thirteenth studio album by Yanni, released on the Virgin Records label in 2003, (see 2003 in music) extending his "One World, One People" philosophy. It peaked at #27 on Billboard's "Top Internet Albums" chart and at #27 on the " Billboard 200" chart in 2003. It also peaked at #1 on the "Top New Age Albums" chart in 2004.

Ethnicity (disambiguation)

Ethnicity is the common characteristics of a group of people.

Ethnicity may also refer to:

  • Ethnicity (United States Census), ethnicity as defined by the US census
  • Ethnicity (United Kingdom), ethnicity in the United Kingdom
  • Ethnicities (journal), an academic journal
  • Ethnicity (album), an album by Yanni
Ethnicity (mural)

Ethnicity is a mural of 3000 square meters, painted with spray paint and acrylic on a wall, by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra, between July and August 2016. The work is located on Olympic Boulevard in Rio de Janeiro, and its main theme is the union of the peoples of the earth and the diversity of ethnic groups from five continents. Kobra was invited by the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, and the city of Rio de Janeiro to put their work on the occasion of the games. The work opened on 4 August 2016.

Usage examples of "ethnicity".

Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and Israeli commentator Meron Benvenisti has called a Herrenvolk democracy, with power and status held by a ruling ethnicity, corresponded to a core part of the Jacksonian ethos in the United States, at least until the 1960s.

Some readers may be surprised that my story of White Castle begins with an extensive discussion of previous foods and ethnicities, but the primary importance of the White Castle story is how its new food and approach to eating transformed American culture.

Even between 1920 and 1930, America progressed from a land of cultural competition and chaos to a much more homogenized society, with its multitude of ethnicities beginning to merge into one.

Even more than these other cultish followings, White Castle fanatics span virtually all ethnicities, social classes, and age groups.

Not only does this create deep cultural differences, but the two ethnicities have millennia of distrust and warfare between them.

When anthropologists survey the thousands of distinct cultures and ethnicities that comprise the human family, they are struck by how few features there are that are givens, always present no matter how exotic the society.

Pleasantville's shallow cooptation of a very painful symbol of this country's racist past seemed inappropriate here, especially since the film never does deal with the issue of race or ethnicity.

America became a polyglot of languages, cuisines, and religious beliefs, undermining the old standard of British American ethnicity and replacing it with a kaleidoscope of cultural norms.

The General and his advisors marveled at this because it occurred amongst all age groups, genders and ethnicities here, where they died quickly against overwhelming odds.

He did point out that as ethnic minority men ran the sweat shops, ethnicity was a red herring, but she dismissed that one.

Within a decade, America's culture and ethnicity became increasingly homogenized and distinctive from that of their European cousins, enjoying new technologies, generating new art forms, and establishing a new sense of national identity.

The same homogenizing trend that they criticize can be just as easily interpreted as the reinforcement of a single American ethnicity, which other political camps would herald as positive.

And when you do it after a guy who juggles and a guy who just talks about his ethnicity, people go, 'What's this?