Clan vs Ethnicity - What's the difference?
clan | ethnicity |
(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
Any association of people behaving clannishly.
(video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
A badger colony.
The common characteristics of a group of people.
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An ethnic group.
Ethnicity is a synonym of clan.
As nouns the difference between clan and ethnicity
is that clan is a group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief while ethnicity is the common characteristics of a group of people.clan
English
(wikipedia clan)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* clannish * matriclan * patriclanDescendants
* Dutch: (l) * German: (l)ethnicity
English
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?}}