ethnicist
- noun
- /ˈɛθnɪsɪst/
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etnicista
- The ethnicist believes that his group is superior to others and promotes that view in his community.
Examples
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Unless we are tribalists and ethnicists, we shouldn't choose the later route.
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So it’s not Hispanic-centric or racist or ethnicist or whatever.
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To them, Awo was no more than a rapacious ethnicist and a rabid, villainous ambitionist.
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As an ethnicist, she often focused her research on the customs and traditions of her own ethnic heritage.
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The conference featured an ethnicist who discussed the impact of cultural identity on social issues.
Synonyms
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5.4
A person who dislikes or treats people of other races unfairly
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8.6
A person who believes one race is better than others and wants that race to have power
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9.8
A person who supports keeping people of different races separate
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7.9
A person who strongly believes their country, group or gender is better and is unfair to others
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9.3
A person who thinks one race is better than others
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A person who dislikes or fears people from other countries
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Supporting people born in a country rather than immigrants
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A person who supports only their own group and ignores outsiders
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Supporting one religious or ethnic group in ways that can cause division
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A person who supports rules that keep certain people from joining a group
A researcher who studies a group's history and culture using records and interviews
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ethnicist comes from the Greek root ethnos meaning 'a people' or 'nation' and the ending -ist meaning 'someone who believes or acts that way'. So an ethnicist is a person who supports one ethnic group over others or who treats people unfairly because of their group.