ethnic minority
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈɛθnɪk maɪˈnɔrɪti/
:
minoría étnica
- In doing so, I risk ignoring other valuable forms of capital, especially among low-SES and ethnic minority individuals.
- racial/ethnic minorities
- ethnic minority group
- ethnic minority population
Violence and aggression against the Kurds, against other ethnic minorities, against Iraq's neighbors.
- Violence and aggression against the Kurds, against other ethnic minorities, against Iraq's neighbors.
- But it seems like the label of ethnic minority has superseded their label of working class.
- So coming back to the the subject of your book then, what is it that the left gets wrong about ethnic minorities?
- The most reprehensible thing going on in China right now is the concentration camps for the the Uyghur ethnic minority.
- And Tony, for example, has been helping young ethnic minority people for for decades in education.
- I remember sitting in a ethnic minority TV training day run by the BBC in London.
- He's left now, but he could no longer do that when he was there with people with ethnic minorities because he was petrified.
- Pretty, pretty rough cut men and women and then Dutch nationals and non western ethnic minorities.
- I think he doesn't like the fact that ethnic minorities are here and taking advantage who are probably not fully documented in this country.
Examples
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Eighty-seven percent of the students were racial or ethnic minority students.
Academic text (2011) -
New Zealand's housing market has created a particular map for ethnic minority groups.
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And Tony, for example, has been helping young ethnic minority people for for decades in education.
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And as we go on, we still know very little about health issues for ethnic minority women and surely for sexual minority people.
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American Indians, at 8% of the total population, constitute the largest ethnic minority.
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But differences between ethnic minorities are striking.
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Reasons for differences in family helping patterns between racial and ethnic minority elderly and white elderly are inconclusive.
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Our study adds empirical data to the mounting evidence that racial/ethnic minorities are at elevated risk during the H1N1 pandemic.
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Social work is a profession dedicated to eliminating inequities that plague ethnic minority groups such as Native Hawaiians.
Academic text (2008) -
The government launched new initiatives to improve the living conditions of the ethnic minority communities in the region.
Synonyms
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3.5
A small group of people with a different race or religion who often have less power
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'ethnic' (relating to culture/heritage) plus 'minority' (a smaller or less represented group), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the phrase. This is a common, cross-linguistic noun phrase pattern describing a culturally distinct subgroup and is therefore transparently understandable.
Etymology
Ethnic minority names a smaller group of people in a country who have different customs, language, or appearance from the larger group. The word minority means 'fewer people' and ethnic points to shared culture, so the phrase means 'a smaller group with different cultural traditions'.