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ethnic
has definitions from the fields of sociology,religion,Christianity
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[ adjective ] relating to or being a member of an ethnic group
Synonyms Examples "ethnic frontiers" "ethnic Chinese in San Francisco" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Nor have we remembered that in the melting_pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi isolated ethnic , regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had caused them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material . On the one side we have the university professors and their students , trained in Teutonic methods of research , who have sought_out , collected and studied the true products of the oral traditions of the ethnic , regional and occupational groups that make_up this nation . In_fact , there is much evidence to indicate they do n't care a_bit about anything beyond their particular regional , ethnic and occupational limits . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (sociology) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
Examples "influenced by ethnic and cultural ties"- J.F.Kennedy "ethnic food" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)My interviews with teen-agers confirmed this portrait of the weakening of religious and ethnic bonds . When I pressed for a purely religious definition , I encountered the familiar blend of liberal piety , interfaith good_will , and a small residue of ethnic loyalty . For most Brooklyn_College students , college is at_once a perpetuation of their ethnic attachments and a breaking_away from the cage of neighborhood and family . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (religion,Christianity) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
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