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ethnicity

noun as in ethnic background

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The study found that while Democrats were largely consistent in their opposition to these immigration policies, Republican sentiment varied more, especially by age, gender and ethnicity.

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He said the ethnicities of suspects varied and are "reflective of the diversity we see in the city".

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Think of the Irish in the 19th century, Italians in the early 20th, or multiple Asian ethnicities today.

It is difficult to establish the exact size of the UK's Kurdish population - official records tend to log nationality rather than ethnicity.

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Quite aside from race and ethnicity, there is no room in this construction for any acknowledgment of what Samuel Huntington called America’s “mainstream Anglo-Protestant culture.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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