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What does ethnic group mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ethnic group? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A group of people who identify with one another, especially on the basis of national, cultural, or religious grounds.
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In the northwest, members of the Abkhaz ethnic group asserted their right to self-determination.
For a reader from another ethnic group, texts often encourage cross-cultural amity and understanding as a means to dispel prejudice.
Besides French and Wolof, people speak the language of their ethnic group, such as Pulaar, Serer, and thirty-eight other African languages.
Kenyans tend to identify primarily with their tribe or ethnic group, and only secondarily with the nation as a whole.
During the general elections, at least half of Malay voters, the country's politically strongest ethnic group, supported the opposition.
Fontan argued that the Occitans were an ethnic group that had suffered genocide at the time of the Albigensian crusades.

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