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==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]]
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 term "ethnic" and related forms from the 14th century through the middle of the 19th century were used in [[English]] in the meaning of "[[pagan]], heathen", as ethnikos was used as the LXX translation of [[Hebrew]] goyim "the nations, non-Hebrews, non-Jews".
The [[modern]] meaning emerged in the mid 19th century and [[expresses]] the notion of "a people" or "a nation". The term ethnicity is of 20th century coinage, attested from the 1950s. The term nationality depending on [[context]] may either be used synonymously with ethnicity, or synonymously with [[citizenship]] (in a [[sovereign]] [[state]]).
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]
==Definitions==
*1 : heathen
*2 a : of or relating to large [[groups]] of people classed according to common [[racial]], [[nation]]al, [[tribal]], [[religious]], [[linguistic]], or [[cultural]] [[origin]] or background <ethnic minorities> <ethnic enclaves>
:b : being a member of a specified ethnic [[group]] <an ethnic German>
:c : of, relating to, or characteristic of ethnics <ethnic [[neighborhoods]]> <ethnic [[foods]]>
==Description==
An '''ethnic''' [[group]] (or ethnicity) is a group of people whose members [[identify]] with each other, through a common [[heritage]], consisting of a common [[language]], a common [[culture]] (often including a shared [[religion]]) and a [[tradition]] of common [[ancestry]].
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.
Processes that result in the emergence of such identification are called ethnogenesis.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic]
[[Category: Sociology]]
[[Category: Anthropology]]
==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]]
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 term "ethnic" and related forms from the 14th century through the middle of the 19th century were used in [[English]] in the meaning of "[[pagan]], heathen", as ethnikos was used as the LXX translation of [[Hebrew]] goyim "the nations, non-Hebrews, non-Jews".
The [[modern]] meaning emerged in the mid 19th century and [[expresses]] the notion of "a people" or "a nation". The term ethnicity is of 20th century coinage, attested from the 1950s. The term nationality depending on [[context]] may either be used synonymously with ethnicity, or synonymously with [[citizenship]] (in a [[sovereign]] [[state]]).
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]
==Definitions==
*1 : heathen
*2 a : of or relating to large [[groups]] of people classed according to common [[racial]], [[nation]]al, [[tribal]], [[religious]], [[linguistic]], or [[cultural]] [[origin]] or background <ethnic minorities> <ethnic enclaves>
:b : being a member of a specified ethnic [[group]] <an ethnic German>
:c : of, relating to, or characteristic of ethnics <ethnic [[neighborhoods]]> <ethnic [[foods]]>
==Description==
An '''ethnic''' [[group]] (or ethnicity) is a group of people whose members [[identify]] with each other, through a common [[heritage]], consisting of a common [[language]], a common [[culture]] (often including a shared [[religion]]) and a [[tradition]] of common [[ancestry]].
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.
Processes that result in the emergence of such identification are called ethnogenesis.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic]
[[Category: Sociology]]
[[Category: Anthropology]]