to ethnicize
- verb
- /ˈɛθnɪˌsaɪz/
- Specialized
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etnificar
- He often uses "African" fabrics in his paintings and installations, ethnicizing in unexpected places, startling the viewer into asking, "Why are the spacemen wearing this?" and then, a moment later, "Why not?"
Examples
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The IDF does not deliberately ethnicize the Druze.
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The latest crisis has merely revealed how far these processes have gone in corroding and ethnicizing state institutions and the civic identities upon which they are based.
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The Problem of Ethnicizing the Policing Role
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But the family was also the most conservative, which made it more attractive to a state apparatus interested in ethnicizing a minority.
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It is a highly ethnicized military, where nearly all of the commanders are Tigrayans.
Blog text (2) -
This example is doubly interesting as it both illustrates the specificity of local stylistic distinctions and a tendency to ethnicize difference.
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The Transylvanian string band is now primarily ethnicized as Romanian within a regional frame into which the national is projected, rather than being taken out of Transylvania and used to represent the national whole.
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The marketing campaign aimed to ethnicize the product to better resonate with local communities.
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The documentary tries to ethnicize the experiences of immigrants in a way that highlights their unique cultural backgrounds.
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Some politicians tend to ethnicize social issues to gain support from specific voter groups.
Synonyms
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8.2
To treat people or issues mainly in terms of race
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ethnicize is built from ethnic ('relating to a group of people who share a culture or background') and the ending -ize ('to make' or 'to become'). So, to ethnicize something is to make it linked to a particular ethnic group or to treat people as belonging to different groups.