14 example sentences using ethnic.
Ethnic used in a sentence
Ethnic in a sentence as a noun
No, I hadn’t heard it– but you know I find ethnic jokes in bad taste.
" isn't synonymous with "what is your ethnic background?
And we're supposed to believe this was ethnic harassment because "he is a muslim"?
There's a good rebuttal to the critique in the comments of that story:--- 8< ---There is no ethnic cleansing.
A ceasefire was declared in 1992, and the ethnically Russian region decided to spin off its own government.
> Likewise, Mandarin is the Manchu language... the ethnic minority that conquered China and became the Qing.
It is a group that people identify with, normally composed based on ethnic, linguistic, or religious similarity.
Ethnic in a sentence as an adjective
There was little to no talk of "ethnic tensions" or "ancient hatreds", and all three major religions mixed freely, along with a sizable Jewish population dating back to the 1400s.
" "20 million people without links to the outside world since the government blocked virtually online access, text messages and international phone calls after ethnic riots in July.
Being white earns you stares here, it is well known that the Chinese suffer from the same problem we do; it is difficult to tell white people apart, much like we may find it difficult to tell some ethnic Chinese apart.
* Formed political alliances with leaders such as Yeddyurappa who has many cases of corruption pending and parties such as Shiv Sena who are notorious for using violence to target ethnic groups.
India, if anything is the perfect counter-example: national, ethnic and religious tensions there broke the country into Bagladesh and Pakistan, and they still ran rampant in each of the new countries between sub-groups.
Singapore was settled earliest by ethnic groups similar to those in current Malaysia, with a big influx of wretchedly poor agricultural laborers for plantation labor during the British colonial period.
Many of them combine tons of ethnicities... USA, Canada, Australia, India, even countries like Germany just aren't that "ethnically pure" as they are sometimes stylized...USA decimated and confined the natives into "reservations", then had the blacks as slaves or second rate citizens up until the sixties.
Ethnic definitions
a person who is a member of an ethnic group
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"
not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
See also: heathen heathenish pagan