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| ==Etymology== | | ==Etymology== |
− | [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin ethnicus, from [[Greek]] ethnikos national, gentile, from ethnos nation, people; akin to Greek ēthos [[custom]] | + | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin ethnicus, from [[Greek]] ethnikos national, gentile, from ethnos nation, people; akin to Greek ēthos [[custom]] |
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| The terms "ethnicity" and "ethnic group" are derived from the [[Greek]] word ἔθνος ethnos, normally translated as "[[nation]]." The terms refer currently to people thought to have common [[ancestry]] who [[share]] a distinctive [[culture]]. | | The terms "ethnicity" and "ethnic group" are derived from the [[Greek]] word ἔθνος ethnos, normally translated as "[[nation]]." The terms refer currently to people thought to have common [[ancestry]] who [[share]] a distinctive [[culture]]. |
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| This [[modern]] usage of "ethnic group" further came to reflect the [[different]] kinds of encounters industrialised states have had with external [[groups]], such as immigrants and [[indigenous]] peoples; "ethnic" thus came to stand in [[opposition]] to "national", to refer to people with distinct cultural [[identities]] who, through [[migration]] or [[conquest]], had become subject to a state or "nation" with a different cultural mainstream.— with the first usage of the term ethnic group in 1935, and entering the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] in 1972. | | This [[modern]] usage of "ethnic group" further came to reflect the [[different]] kinds of encounters industrialised states have had with external [[groups]], such as immigrants and [[indigenous]] peoples; "ethnic" thus came to stand in [[opposition]] to "national", to refer to people with distinct cultural [[identities]] who, through [[migration]] or [[conquest]], had become subject to a state or "nation" with a different cultural mainstream.— with the first usage of the term ethnic group in 1935, and entering the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] in 1972. |
− | *Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century] | + | *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century] |
| ==Definitions== | | ==Definitions== |
| *1 : heathen | | *1 : heathen |
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| Members of an ethnic group are conscious of belonging to an ethnic [[group]]; moreover ethnic [[identity]] is further marked by the [[recognition]] from others of a group's distinctiveness. | | Members of an ethnic group are conscious of belonging to an ethnic [[group]]; moreover ethnic [[identity]] is further marked by the [[recognition]] from others of a group's distinctiveness. |
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− | Processes that result in the emergence of such identification are called ethnogenesis.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic] | + | Processes that result in the emergence of such identification are called ethnogenesis.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic] |
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| [[Category: Sociology]] | | [[Category: Sociology]] |
| [[Category: Anthropology]] | | [[Category: Anthropology]] |