ethnicity

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Noun

ethnicity (plural ethnicities)

1. The common characteristics of a group of people.
   • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164: 

     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?

2. An ethnic group.

Translations

The characteristics of an ethnic group

• Catalan: ètnia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 種族 (cmn), 种族 (cmn) (zhǒngzú), 民族 (cmn) (mínzú)

• Finnish: kansallispiirre (fi)
• French: ethnicité (fr) f, appartenance ethnique (fr) f
• German: Ethnizität (de) f, Volkszugehörigkeit (de) f, ethnische Zugehörigkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: etnikum (hu)
• Irish: eitneachas (ga) m
• Italian: etnicità (it) f

• Japanese: 民族性 (ja) (みんぞくせい, minzokusei), 民族 (ja) (みんぞく, minzoku), エスニシティ (ja) (esunishiti)
• Jèrriais: ethnicité f
• Khmer: ជាតិពន្ធភាព (km) (chiet pon thu)
• Persian: قومیت (fa) (qowmiyyat)
• Russian: этническая принадлежность (ru) (etníčeskaja prinadléžnostʹ) f, национальность (ru) (nacionálʹnostʹ) f
• Spanish: etnicidad (es) f
• Swedish: etnicitet (sv) c

An ethnic group

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民族 (cmn) (mínzú)

• Finnish: etnisyys (fi), kansallisuus (fi)
• French: ethnie (fr) f, groupe ethnique (fr) f
• German: ethnische Gruppe (de) f
• Hungarian: etnikum (hu)
• Irish: eitneacht (ga) f
• Japanese: 民族 (ja) (みんぞく, minzoku)

• Khmer: ក្រុមជនជាតិ (km) (krom jon jeat)
• Korean: 민족 (ko) (minjok) (民族 (ko))
• Persian: قوم (fa) (qowm)
• Portuguese: etnia (pt)
• Russian: этническая группа (ru) (etníčeskaja grúppa) f, национальность (ru) (nacionálʹnostʹ) f, этнос (ru) (étnos) m
• Serbo-Croatian: etnicitet (sh), етницитет (sh) m
• Vietnamese: dân tộc (vi) (民族 (vi))

Related terms

• ethnic
• ethnical
• ethnically
• ethnology