| 单词 | ethnic minority |
| 释义 | > as lemmasethnic minority ethnic minority n. (also ethnic minority group) a group within a country or community which has different national or cultural traditions from the larger, dominant population. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > [noun] > particular section or group of community or mankind peoplea1382 public1709 national minority1918 ethnic minority1919 visible minority1940 1919 Reform Advocate (Chicago) 25 Oct. 285/2 In enlarged Rumania, there will be, besides the Jews, three or four millions of human beings belonging to ethnic minorities who cannot be left without protection or defence. 1940 Foreign Affairs 18 659 Pseudo-biological theories which lead to the persecution and expatriation of numerous ethnic minority groups. 1945 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 10 481 (heading) Status and housing of ethnic minorities. 1964 O. E. Klapp Symbolic Leaders vii. 179 If he belongs to a disliked ethnic minority, he tries to be as unlike the stereotype of that minority as possible. 1974 Educ. & Community Rel. Jan. 1 Primary and secondary schools were included which were in areas of ethnic minority group settlement but had no ethnic minority group children in the school. 1984 Guardian 20 Nov. 8/7 Ethnic minorities will hopefully be tempted into the force by the fact that a black and female PC is given a starring role in the film. 2006 P. Cole in E. Poole & J. E. Richardson Muslims & News Media i. vi. 73 Ethnic minorities will not connect with newspapers that neither understand them nor bother to employ them. < as lemmas |
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