Definition of "ethnicity" []

• Ethnic character, background, or affiliation. (noun)
• An ethnic group. (noun)

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• "Marrying within ethnicity is a way of moving beyond that, he said."
• "You start off by saying racism is always about colour, correct, it's about race, then throw out a social construct term ethnicity from the Greek ethnos meaning nation or tribe which is not about race either but instead just social grouping of similarity."
• "Excluding some citizens from running in elections because of their ethnicity is a ludicrously backward concept."