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biethnic

biethnic

7.4
Relating to two different ethnic groups
  • adjective
  • /ˌbaɪˈɛθnɪk/
translation icon : biétnico
  • 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

  • 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.

    Academic text (1993)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2004)
  • 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.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The city is home to a vibrant biethnic community that celebrates both Italian and Vietnamese cultures.

Synonyms

bicultural
vsbiethnic
1 5.0

Connected with two different cultures in the same person, family, or place

focuses on two ethnic groups rather than cultural identities or practices
interethnic
vsbiethnic
1 5.7

Involving people from different racial or cultural groups

refers specifically to involvement of exactly two ethnic groups

Surface Forms

biethnic positive

Morphology

biethnic = ethnic (transparent) = bi + ethnic

The prefix 'bi-' meaning 'two' combined with 'ethnic' yields the literal meaning 'involving two ethnic groups', which is directly inferable.

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.