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The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences. / An ethnic group. / (casual, euphemistic) Race; common ancestry.

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ethnicity

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/ɛθˈnɪsɪti/

Noun

countable uncountable euphemistic informal

The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences. / An ethnic group. / (casual, euphemistic) Race; common ancestry.

Japanese Meaning

先祖、文化、言語、国民としての経験などの共通の特徴を有する集団。 / そのような共通の特徴を持つ民族集団。 / （カジュアルまたは婉曲的に）人種、共通の血統を指す場合もある。

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During the community forum, several residents emphasized how their ethnicity shaped their perspectives on local education policies.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

地域フォーラムで、何人かの住民は自分たちの民族的背景が地域の教育方針に対する見方にどのように影響しているかを強調した。

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The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.

Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

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An ethnic group.

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(casual, euphemistic) Race; common ancestry.

ethnicities

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