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. |