Definition of ethnic group Ethnic group
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What does ethnic group mean?
WordNet
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| ethnic group - people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture | ||
| ethnos | ||
| group, grouping any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | ||
| ethnic minority a group that has different national or cultural traditions from the majority of the population | ||
| azeri an ethnic group living in Azerbaijan | ||
| bengali a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal | ||
| flemish one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch | ||
| israelites, hebrews the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19) | ||
| mbundu, ovimbundu an ethnic group speaking Umbundu and living in western Angola | ||
| tadzhik, tajik an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China | ||
| walloons an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France | ||
| abo, australian aborigine, native australian, aboriginal, aborigine a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived | ||
| kurd a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state | ||
| igbo a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria; "most Igbo are farmers" | ||
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Wiktionary 
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ethnic group
A population of human beings whose members identify with each other, either on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry, or recognition by others as a distinct group, or by common cultural, linguistic, religious, or territorial traits.
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An ethnic group is a group of people who are considered to be the same in some way. They may all have the same ancestors, speak the same language, or have the same religion.
Sometimes almost all of the people in one country are of the same ethnic group, but not always. Often one country may have several different ethnic groups, or the people of one ethnic group may live in several different countries.
