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ethnic

adjective as in racial, cultural

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In 1988, the criteria was expanded to include mothers who were in racial or ethnic groups at high risk of contracting the disease, such as Southeast Asian immigrants and Alaskan natives.

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He found that within these communities people clustered themselves according to education, income, family formation, rates of delinquency and other factors, just as other ethnic groups living in slum areas had done in previous eras.

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He is globally revered for putting a stop to the frenzy of bloodletting 31 years ago, in which extremist members of the Hutu ethnic group murdered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

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Members of the Nama ethnic group—whose forebears were ousted from their land by German colonial authorities 120 years ago—in June filed a complaint with the United Nations.

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The country of nearly 30 million people is often referred to as a mini-Africa because its many ethnic groups and diverse geographic and climatic zones are seen as emblematic of the continent.

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