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ethnicity

referring to a person's ethnic character, background, affiliation, or identification, this term lacks a great deal of precision in a culture in which most of us have more than one ethnic heritage. Those who self-identity with an ethnicity should be so acknowledged. In other cases, identify ethnic origin only when that information is central to your material and discuss all ethnic groups in parallel fashion. See also ethnic/ethnics, ethnic slurs, race.


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