ethnic

ethnic
adjective

of or relating to a population subgroup (within a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition
（与）种族（有关）的；（与）民族（有关）的
ethnic and cultural rights and traditions.
民族和文化权力与传统。
leaders of ethnic communities.
种族团体的领袖们。
■of or relating to national and cultural origins
（与）民族文化渊源（有关）的
we recruit our employees regardless of ethnic origin.
我们招募员工不分种族。
■denoting origin by birth or descent rather than by present nationality
人种的
ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
科索沃的阿尔巴尼亚人。
■characteristic of or belonging to a non-Western cultural tradition
非西方文化传统的；异文化的
cheap ethnic dresses.
廉价的异文化服饰。
folk and ethnic music.
民间民族音乐。
■(archaic)neither Christian nor Jewish; pagan or heathen
(古)既非基督教亦非犹太教的；异教的；无宗教信仰的

noun

(chiefly N. Amer.)a member of an ethnic minority
(主北美)少数民族成员

派生
ethnically
adverb

[sentence adverb]Denmark is ethnically Scandinavian.
丹麦在民族文化渊源上是个斯堪的纳维亚国家。

语源

late Middle English (denoting a person not of the Christian or Jewish faith): via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek ethnikos 'heathen', from ethnos 'nation'. Current senses date from the 19th cent

用法

In recent years, ethnic has begun to be used in a euphemistic way to refer to non-white people as a whole, as in a radio station which broadcasts to the ethnic community in BirminghamAlthough this usage is quite common, especially in journalism, it is better expressed by more accurate terms such as ‘black’, ‘Asian’, etc

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