ethnic minoritynoun [ C ]
uk/ˌeθ.nɪk maɪˈnɒr.ɪ.ti/us/ˌeθ.nɪk maɪˈnɑːr.ə.t̬i/a group of people of a particular race or nationality living in a country or area where most people are from a different race or nationality
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Racial issues
- alien
- anti-Semitic
- anti-Semitism
- color bar
- color line
- communal
- ethnic cleansing
- foreign
- foreigner
- ghetto
- institutionalized racism
- nativism
- NF
- non-racist
- Pan-Africanism
- Pan-Arabism
- racist
- Uncle Tom
- white flight
- white supremacy
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Examples from literature
- Ironically, even the half-hearted efforts made to protect ethnic minorities living in the newly created nation-states proved eventually to be little more than weapons to be used in Europe's continuing fratricidal conflicts.