Ancestry vs Ethnicity - What's the difference?
ancestry | ethnicity |
Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
The common characteristics of a group of people.
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An ethnic group.
As nouns the difference between ancestry and ethnicity
is that ancestry is condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent while ethnicity is the common characteristics of a group of people.ancestry
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Alternative forms
* ancestrie (obsolete) * auncestrie (obsolete) * auncestry (obsolete)Noun
(ancestries)- Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.
ethnicity
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Noun
(ethnicities)citation, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity , genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}