biethnic
- adjective
- /ˌbaɪˈɛθnɪk/
- This biethnic community poses interesting questions about the construction and transformation of ethnic identity, and the interpretations of outsiders contrast with those of the pioneers and their descendants.
- biethnic family
Examples
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Other examples of biethnic spaces where all husbands belonged to one ethno-racial group and all wives another appeared in rural California.
Academic text (2003) -
Within the biethnic families, the domestic culture was more strongly Mexican than Punjabi.
Academic text (1993) -
But the numbers of such biethnic couples grew steadily.
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The chief characteristics of the biethnic community can be noted briefly; a detailed analysis of these Punjabi-Mexican marriages and the families they produced appears elsewhere.
Academic text (1993) -
They were not just biethnic; they were triethnic: Hindu, Mexican, and American.
Academic text (1993) -
In terms of ethnicity across the sample, 52% of the students were African American, 30% Latino, 9% biethnic, 6% other, and 3% White, non-Hispanic.
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Both these observers confined themselves to the Sikhs affiliated with the El Centro temple, thereby overlooking the expanding biethnic families.
Academic text (1993) -
Punjabi attempts to marry white women were actively resisted by Anglo society, and Mexican men sometimes retaliated against the biethnic couples.
Academic text (1993) -
It is difficult to reconstruct fully self-images in the past from oral evidence collected only over the last ten years; yet it is clear that members of the biethnic families saw themselves as working with elements of three different ethnic identities.
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The city is home to a vibrant biethnic community that celebrates both Italian and Vietnamese cultures.
Synonyms
Connected with two different cultures in the same person, family, or place
Involving people from different racial or cultural groups
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word biethnic combines bi- 'two', as in bicycle which has two wheels, and ethnic 'culture or people'. So, biethnic describes people, places, or groups that involve 'two' different cultural or ethnic communities.