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What is the noun for ethnie?

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ethnic
  1. An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
  2. An ethnic minority. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (archaic) A heathen, a pagan.
  4. (in classical scholarship) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city
ethnicity
  1. The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.
  2. An ethnic group.
  3. (casual, euphemistic) Race; common ancestry.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The report identifies wide variations in survival associated with race and ethnicity.”
      “Whatever ethnicity might be, the problem lies with its essentialized all-embracing interpretation, and this must be put aside.”
      “They conceived of ethnicity only in terms of the Other, as if there were no ethnicity to whiteness.”
ethnicism
  1. An emphasis upon ethnic identity.
  2. Prejudice based on ethnic origin.
  3. (obsolete) heathenism; pagan superstition.
  4. Examples:
    1. “The common denominator in racism and ethnicism is the consciousness of the distinction and tension between us and them.”
      “Nation-building could not be nurtured, he felt, upon a narrowly-framed Gikuyu ethnicism and rewards for the favored few.”
      “In Asia as in Europe, empires and ethnicism are the enemies of the nation.”
ethnocentrism
  1. The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The comments reveal an ethnocentrism in judging lower-class behavior using middle-class standards.”
      “Her family background perhaps also helps to explain her interest in displaced and marginal people, her horror of nationalism and ethnocentrism.”
      “Related to the problems of anachronism and ethnocentrism is the distinction between emic and etic terms.”
ethnocide
  1. The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic group, accomplished either by destroying the members of the group (genocide) or by destroying its cultural identity (culturicide).
  2. Examples:
    1. “That is no natural phenomenon but the result of centuries of politically directed ethnocide.”
      “If nothing was done, the ethnocide would continue and, in fewer than 50 years, the indigenous peoples of Canada would have become extinct.”
      “It was indeed an ethnocide, that is, causing a people to lose their status, thus destroying their culture.”
ethnocracy
  1. A form of government in which a particular ethnic group holds a disproportionate amount of government power.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I will engage this concept to unpack the power relationships based on ethnicity which are turning Macedonian society into an ethnocracy.”
ethnization
  1. The act or process of making a group into, or of becoming as a group, an ethnicity or distinct people.
ethnicization
  1. The act or process of making or becoming ethnic; ethnization.
  2. Examples:
    1. “For instance, not only is Oscar racialized as black, we can also see an ethnicization of race whereby Oscar is constructed as a black American.”
      “If Achaea stayed clear from the wave of ethnicization, this was due to the evident and immediate benefits which the Achaeans enjoyed in their alliance with Sparta.”
ethnocrat
  1. A person involved with the running of an ethnocracy.
ethnocentricity
  1. Practising or the policies surrounding being ethnocentric.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Cross argues that dismissing music as a useless frill smacks of ethnocentricity.”
      “My own attempts at avoiding ethnocentricity have been rather shaken up over the last fortnight, and I'd like to talk about it.”
      “It is precisely this exploitation of diversity that lies at the heart of ethnocentricity.”
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ethnicist
  1. A person who believes a particular ethnicity is superior to others.
ethnocentrist
  1. A proponent of ethnocentrism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “With its majestic silence and impressive height, it leaves even the ethnocentrist of the worst breed in complete awe.”
      “In connection to this proves, legal expert Mersim Polozani said that this approach proves the ethnocentrist mentality in the country.”
ethnocentricism
  1. ethnocentrism
  2. Examples:
    1. “Contemporary pan-Africanism, in other words, should not be a platform for ethnocentricism.”
      “From a phenomenological perspective this approach connotes religio-cultural supremacy, racism and ethnocentricism which culminate in the marginalization of other cultures.”
ethnick
  1. Obsolete form of ethnic.
ethnocentricities
ethnocentrisms
ethnocentrists
  1. plural of ethnocentrist
ethnocracies
  1. plural of ethnocracy
ethnicisms
  1. plural of ethnicism
ethnicists
  1. plural of ethnicist
ethnocides
  1. plural of ethnocide
ethnocrats
  1. plural of ethnocrat
ethnicities
  1. plural of ethnicity
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The human family encompasses a rich diversity of ages, genders, ethnicities, abilities and sexual orientations.”
      “Kachin is the main language among Kachin people and even some people of other ethnicities can speak Kachin.”
      “You can find diabetic cookbooks that focus on foods from different cultures and ethnicities.”
ethnicks
  1. plural of ethnick
ethnics
  1. plural of ethnic
  2. Examples:
    1. “Until about 1720, Dutch ethnics married within the group, worshiped together, and joined hands for economic and political objectives.”
      “If any group of white ethnics should have a sense of what it is to be an outsider and underdog, it should be the Irish.”
      “But on the face of it, this should mean that second generation ethnics find belonging a much easier task.”
ethnies
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