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    ethnic


    1. He functions as some kind of spokesman for their ethnic group or something like that


    2. Some of the Brazilians want to retain their identity as an ethnic group


    3. There was another faction who felt that it was acceptable to do daily business with the locals but retain their own culture with no more 'political boundary' than land ownership, and a third group who wanted to remain in voluntary association like the core of any other ethnic group, but not be required to join one contiguous territory


    4. He was of the moderate faction of the Brazilians, he would preserve what he could of their heritage as any other ethnic group would


    5. He supported rights of individual ownership and fair interaction with people of other ethnic groups


    6. The ethnic groups in the Gengee were always Elf and Troll, and doostEr was familiar with the legends from the times when the lines between them were drawn in blood and blade


    7. 4 light years and those cultural differences were enough to separate them from the ancient hatreds of Earth's ethnic groups


    8. We need to understand that Israel is not simply another ethnic people or nation


    9. Now if Desa had her old manual yandrille in her bag they could have had quite the ethnic heritage act


    10. The young man with the broken wrist was of some ethnic stock, while the three other youths were Caucasians and Miss Jones was no fool

    11. of some ethnic stock, while the three other youths were Caucasians


    12. On a global scale, Heart-Walls lead to ethnic


    13. She probably thought Yingolian circuitry was a form of ethnic knitwear


    14. There were several popular species in the mix, each with the batter that complimented their area and the ethnic groups from there


    15. There were whole different ethnic groups over there like Megnors and Enurates instead of Elves and Trolls and a pantheon of Gods that would bewilder a Hindu


    16. mountains of Greece an ethnic group that is


    17. What bothered her as she lived in this new world, was the decline and elimination of the ethnic traditions of her childhood


    18. Ironically, this trend appears to be declining among Blacks and Whites, although a reemerging phenomenon appears to be gaining momentum among ―recently‖ arrived ethnic groups spanning second and third generations or perhaps it only seems that way


    19. As our (collective) body of shared values continue to diminish under the dynamic influence of multiculturalism and where the evolution of self-contained communities, especially in our inner cities, continues mapping their (own) chartered course, such events must inevitably give rise to expanding pockets of diverse groups who, as a rule, feel more at ease in their (own) ethnic environments perceived to be culturally and socially sympathetic to their needs contrasted by ‖homogenous‖ groups who, increasingly threatened by ―foreign‖ values that provide little, if any meaning, seek refuge of their own


    20. peoples from different ethnic backgrounds and religions by tossing them into the pot, if you will

    21. That certain ethnic or racial groups have historically outperformed others in a variety of different fields including sports, medicine, arts and sciences, literature or education in general, should not astonish critics skeptical of the underlying differences owing to cultural and (natural) agents that predispose achievement


    22. Inter racial and ethnic marriages in recent years, however, have gradually erased such distinctions or genetic dispositions and environmental influences, by blending hereditary characteristics and socio/cultural factors that may otherwise enhance or (diminish) performance


    23. The solution to this unfortunate dilemma requires (the) reestablishing of and ―enforcement‖ of Immigration Quotas designed to preserve existing racial and ethnic balances (for the time being) while allowing recent arrivals an opportunity to properly assimilate into their new environment


    24. What such arguments conveniently overlook, however, is the disparity of intra-community assaults committed against members of some community by members of another community, racial, ethnic or otherwise, in relation to those committed by individuals living inside their (own) community; that is to say, violent crimes are often committed against individuals living within the same community


    25. Families residing in traditionally ethnic neighborhoods were often able to acquire, in some measure, the resources required to promote safer neighborhoods


    26. There was/is one major difference however, that, compared with modern standards, ethnic neighborhoods, however rundown, were generally safer, crime was lower, immigrant classes better educated, families more tightly knit, homes cleaner, children smiled more and engaged in sidewalk games, neighbors gathered on stoops on sweltering summer evenings, unemployment was lower and drugs virtually


    27. …are in many ways similar to the traditional ethnic gangs common at the turn of, up to around the middle of the twentieth century…


    28. …(that is to say) particularly striking to the casual observer is an inability to differentiate between generations whose phonic accents and (ethnic) customs and forms seem to suggest an unwillingness to integrate into the mainstream…


    29. While some wanted complete extermination, most Californians publicly called for ethnic cleansing of all Natives from the entire state


    30. They did not know my ethnic origin when I approached them, because I was wearing a Polish officer’s uniform

    31. Ethnic neighborhoods have historically generated a systematic inflow/outflow of diverse cultures that settled into self-contained communities that remained self-sufficient through its schools, churches, community and political organizations and local businesses until more favorable (economic) opportunities beckoned


    32. ) Although many of these communities retained a measure of ethnic authenticity, its members gradually sought to adopt, by assimilating, the customs and practices of (the) mainstream society


    33. Such viewpoints are oftentimes engendered by the perception of ―partial justice‖ as it seems to apply to a particular racial or ethnic group, influencing the (collective) mindset of that group seeking justice within narrower limits that typically define that group‘s self interests rather than the interests of society


    34. The business class was mostly ethnic Chinese


    35. Both led to widespread hatred and even physical attacks on entire broad ethnic groups, Asians and Middle Easterners


    36. I do not buy into the easy arguments that certain racial or ethnic groups are ―naturally‖ attracted to certain sports like African Americans are supposedly drawn to Basketball, for example


    37. They rounded up and imprisoned 6,000 dissidents and ethnic groups considered suspect, holding some in custody for up to two years after the end of the war


    38. Where German-Americans had been one of the most strongly bilingual ethnic groups, with Germans as pioneers in the bilingual education field and publishing many German language newspapers, magazines, and books, much of that came to an end


    39. Nixon made lives better for many ethnic groups he held in deeply racist contempt, one of the more surreal episodes in presidential history


    40. 8 million inhabitants is constituted along the following lines of various ethnic groups of diverse cultures: 77% Chinese, 14% Malaysian, 7

    41. Could Texas survive its ugly, unplanned, unwilling attempt to be a nation? It came into existence to be a US slave state, and practiced ethnic cleansing against both Mexicans and Natives, even friendly tribes


    42. Its government was made up of mixed French-Vietnamese people and Catholic converts, along with a largely ethnic Chinese business class, all seen as alien by most Vietnamese


    43. Not only that, there was a high death rate at boarding schools from disease, up to six and a half times that of other ethnic groups


    44. But what both outfits share are their ability to work to unite masses of people in a cause, fairer treatment for people of a class, profession, or ethnic group


    45. Never mind about the ethnic, racial, and religious differences; people might have been throwing sticks and stones at each other over that crap but it was always some greedy bastard behind it all


    46. The people are hospitable; it acts in harmony with more than 70 ethnic groups that interact with the thousands of tourists of the most diverse nations and cultures in a fantastic integration


    47. From its colonial past as capital of East Jersey to the arrival of factories, shipping links and ethnic groups that worked them, the town never fully blossomed


    48. Stroyer’s words hovered in Jason’s mind: “We destroyed the Native Americans, nothing short of ethnic cleansing


    49. He had told Jason that illegals were not a race or an ethnic group


    50. this with a policy of ethnic elimination














































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    Synonyms for "ethnic"

    ethnic heathen heathenish pagan cultural ethnical tribal national clannish

    "ethnic" definitions

    a person who is a member of an ethnic group


    denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people


    not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam