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How to pronounce ethnicity in English?

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Type Words
Type of quality
Derivation ethnic


ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations.

Examples of ethnicity

ethnicity
It defined her more so than any genetic traits or her German Lutheran ethnicity.
From the post-gazette.com
Such cancers are more common among younger women and those of African ethnicity.
From the upi.com
Marriage criteria were typically limited to religion, ethnicity, jobs and looks.
From the latimes.com
Women of Moslem ethnicity are outnumbering European women in Britain 6-8 to 1-2.
From the independent.co.uk
Roundups based on ethnicity succeeded only in enraging local ethnic communities.
From the theatlantic.com
The handouts don't threaten a specific group or target any particular ethnicity.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
Inmates are not segregated by race or ethnicity, yet there aren't gang problems.
From the ocregister.com
The rate for children of a minority race or ethnicity was more than double that.
From the nytimes.com
Presumably you can consider race or ethnicity in combination with other factors.
From the newsweek.com
More examples
  • An ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties; "ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations"
  • (ethnic) a person who is a member of an ethnic group
  • (ethnic) cultural: denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people; "influenced by ethnic and cultural ties"- J.F.Kennedy; "ethnic food"
  • (ethnic) heathen: not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
  • (ethnically) with respect to ethnicity; "the neighborhood is ethnically diverse"
  • An ethnic group (or ethnicity) is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage, consisting of a common language, a common culture (often including a shared religion) and a tradition of common ancestry (corresponding to a history of endogamy). nSmith 1987
  • Ethnicity, is Yanni's 13th studio album, released in 2003, (see 2003 in music) extending his "One World, One People" philosophy. It peaked at #27 on Billboard's "Top Internet Albums" chart and at #27 on the "Billboard 200" chart in 2003. ...
  • The classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom has attracted controversy in the past: particularly at the time of the 2001 Census where the existence and nature of such a classification, which appeared on the Census form, became more widely known than general.
  • Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB), are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not ...