Ethnic Group

Definition: Ethnic Group

Ethnic Group

Noun

1. People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Finance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Ethnic Group

Crosswords: Ethnic Group

Books

• Community Relations Concepts: Human Relations-Race Relations, Ethnic Group Relations and Community Relations for Criminal Justice (reference)

• Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group (Twayne's Immigrant Heritage of America Series) (reference)

• Vox populi : getting your ethnic group on community television (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Although Canavan disease may occur in any ethnic group, it affects persons of Eastern European Jewish ancestry more frequently. (references)

The patient's age and race or ethnic group can raise an additional red flag that a sign or symptom of illness could be related to sarcoidosis. (references)

To maximize educational, programmatic, and policy efforts, these data should be specific to age, gender, ethnic group, region, and socioeconomic status where possible. (references)

Business

The Government estimates that there are more than 100 million Buddhists, most of whom are from the dominant Han ethnic group. (references)

The number of Turks residing in Germany, for example, will grow to three million in 2010. This ethnic group is expected to have a share of DM 250 billion (USD 125 billion) of the German gross domestic product, thus representing a major economic force. (references)

Children

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Students of different ethnic groups may share the school building, but they attend class on different floors or use the facility in shifts without ever actually interacting with other students or teachers of a different ethnic group. (references)

Civil Liberties

Latvia

Jews are considered an ethnic group and are listed as such rather than as Latvian, Russian, or other. (references)

Afghanistan

Shi'a, including the predominately Shi'a Hazara ethnic group, are among the most economically disadvantaged persons in the country. (references)

Discrimination

Liechtenstein

The law also prohibits public incitement to violence or public agitation or insult directed against a race, people, ethnic group, or state. (references)

Bhutan

In the late 1980's and early 1990's, the Government instituted policies designed to preserve the cultural dominance of the Ngalong ethnic group. (references)

Uganda

The continued instability in the north led to violations of the rights of some Acholi, an ethnic group that comprises a significant part of the population. (references)

Economic History

Liberia

The Kpelle in central and western Liberia is the largest ethnic group. (references)

Kyrgyzstan

They did not emerge as a distinct ethnic group until the 15th century. (references)

Sri Lanka

Indian Tamils, a distinct ethnic group, represent about 6% of the population. (references)

Human Rights

Cameroon

Accordingly, particular points of customary law differ depending upon the region and the ethnic group where a case is being tried. (references)

Cameroon

Customary law is based upon the traditions of the ethnic group predominant in the region and is adjudicated by traditional authorities of that group. (references)

Cameroon

Their authority varies by region and ethnic group, but they often are the arbiters of property and domestic disputes and may serve a probate function as well. (references)

Indigenous People

Guatemala

The culture of another very small ethnic group, the Xinca of southeastern Guatemala, was also in danger of extinction. (references)

Japan

However, the law stopped short of recognizing the Ainu as the indigenous people of Hokkaido and also failed to address whether they deserved special rights as a distinct ethnic group. (references)

Congo

The Fundamental Act prohibits discrimination based on ethnicity; however, the indigenous Pygmy ethnic group, who number in the tens of thousands and live primarily in the northern forest regions, do not enjoy equal treatment in the predominantly Bantu society. (references)

Minorities

Nigeria

There is no majority ethnic group. (references)

Guinea

No single ethnic group constitutes a majority nationwide. (references)

Liberia

No ethnic group constitutes a majority of the population. (references)

Political Economy

Malaysia

Malays form the largest ethnic group in Malaysia with about 55% of the population. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

It is strongest in the west-central lands of Gbagbo's Bété ethnic group and in the southeast. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Discrimination against ethnic minorities, particularly the Bubi ethnic group, and foreigners continued. (references)

Political Rights

Kenya

At year's end, there were only two ministers from the country's largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu. (references)

Guinea

However, a disproportionate number of senior military officers are Soussou, the President's ethnic group. (references)

Kenya

However, in 1999 President Moi appointed a person affiliated with the Kikuyu ethnic group as Vice President. (references)

Women

Gambia

Marriages often are arranged and, depending on the ethnic group, polygyny is practiced. (references)

Sierra Leone

In particular their rights and status under traditional law vary significantly depending upon the ethnic group to which they belong. (references)

Sri Lanka

The application of different legal practices based on membership in a religious or ethnic group often results in discrimination against women. (references)

Worker Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian Croats have informal labor organizations in areas where they are the dominant ethnic group, but generally they are represented by the Federation union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

民族 (nationality). (various references)

Danish

nationalt mindretal, folkegruppe. (various references)

Dutch

etnische groep, volksstam (clan, race, tribe), volksgroep, stam (bole, boll, clan, microbial strain, phylum, race, radical, root, shaft, stem, strain, tree-trunk, tribe, trunk), geslacht (clan, generation, genus, house, race, sex, tribe). (various references)

Faeroese

ættarbólkur (clan, race, tribe). (various references)

Finnish

etninen ryhmä (ethnicity). (various references)

French

ethnie, groupe ethnique. (various references)

German

ethnische Gruppe, Volksgruppe, Stamm (bole, boll, clan, microbial strain, permanent staff, permanent workforce, phylum, race, radical, regular customers, regular team-members, regulars, root, shaft, stem, strain, tigel, tigella, tigelle, tribe, troop, trunk, word root), Sippe (clan, family, kin, kinship group, race, series, tribe), Gezücht (clan, race, tribe), Geschlecht (clan, family, gender, generation, house, lineage, organ, race, sex, tribe), Abkunft (clan, lineage, origin, race, tribe). (various references)

Greek 

εθνική ομάδα. (various references)

Icelandic

kynþáttur (clan, race, tribe). (various references)

Indonesian

mandar (ethnic group in Sulawesi, kind of waterfowl). (various references)

Italian

gruppo etnico. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

エスキモー犬 (aesthetic, escape, escort, escort girl, Eskimo dog, ESPer, Esperanto, esprit, esprit nouveau, esquire, establishment, estate, ester, esterase, esthetic, esthetic salon, estheticien, Estonia, estrogen, estrone, es-zet, eternal, eternity, ethnic, ethnic fashion, ethnic food, ethnic look, ethnicism, ethnicity, ethno, ethnology, ethology, expresso, hope, one who has ESP, S size, sauce Espagnole, science of animal behaviour, Short Take-Off and Landing, small size, STOL). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

エスニックグループ . (various references)

Pig Latin

ethnicay oupgray

Portuguese

tribo (clan, folk, race, tribe), raça (blood, breed, brood, clan, crack, flesh, folk, gutta percha, national, quarter crack, race, strain, subspecies, toecrach, tribe), grupo étnico (ethnic restaurants), gentílico (ethnographic, gentile), gênero (clan, description, gender, genre, genus, kind, line, manner, race, sort, tribe). (various references)

Spanish

grupo étnico. (various references)

Swedish

etnisk grupp. (various references)

Thai

กลุ่มชาติพันธุ์. (various references)

Turkish

etnik grup (ethnics). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: retouching.

-2 letters: eutrophic, hectoring, nephrotic, pothering, recouping, tochering.

-3 letters: cohering, cothurni, courting, couthier, entropic, eructing, erupting, eruption, euchring, euphonic, euphoric, euphotic, gerontic, inceptor, neurotic, ochering, outprice, perching, phonetic, pouchier, pouching, prochein, punchier, reputing, retching, ruthenic, theurgic, torching, touchier, touching, trouping, unerotic, unheroic, unpoetic.

-4 letters: chopine, choregi, chorine, choring, chunter, chuting, cithern, cithren, coenuri, cointer.

+1 letter: outpreaching.

+2 letters: photoreducing.

+4 letters: counterpunching, neuropathologic, uncopyrightable.

+5 letters: hyperfunctioning.

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