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ETHNICITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties
Example:
ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("ethnicity" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Derivation:
ethnic (denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people)
Context examples:
The scientists controlled for factors such as age, sex, smoking status, alcohol use, diet, education, race/ethnicity, and body mass index (BMI).
(Physical activity associated with lower risk of many cancers, NIH)
"We knew there were inherent biases in these systems around race and ethnicity and we suspected there would also be problems around gender," said senior author Jed Brubaker.
(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)
An ICP34.5-, ICP47-deleted, oncolytic herpes simplex type-1 virus (HSV-1) isolated from the mouth of an HSV-1-infected patient of Chinese Han ethnicity, and encoding the immunostimulating factor cytokine granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities.
(Oncolytic Herpes Simplex Virus-1-encoding GM-CSF, NCI Thesaurus)
Groups of individuals that exhibit differing characteristic behavior in customs, attitudes, practices, and behaviors, or are predisposed to certain health histories due to differences in ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, or economic standing (DCCPS)
(Culturally and Economically Diverse Group, NCI Thesaurus)
Based on results from more than 2000 primary-age schoolchildren from across London, the researchers found that walking or cycling to school is a strong predictor of obesity levels, a result which was consistent across neighbourhoods, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds.
(Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests, University of Cambridge)
In practice, the term mainly refers to people originated from forty-eight sub-Saharan Africa nations; and excudes individuals from North Africa countries, e.g. such as Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia with Arab and Berber ethnicity.
(African, NCI Thesaurus)
Ethnicity - an arbitrary classification of the social group a person belongs to, and either identifies with or is identified with by others, as a result of a complex of cultural, biological, geographical and other factors such as linguistic, dietary and religion traditions; ancestry, background, allegiance, or association; and physical characteristics traditionally associated with race.
(Ethnicity, NCI Thesaurus)
