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Ethnic vs Ethnocracy - What's the difference?

ethnic | ethnocracy |

As nouns the difference between ethnic and ethnocracy

is that ethnic is an ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community while ethnocracy is a form of government in which a particular ethnic group holds a disproportionate amount of government power.

As an adjective ethnic

is of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.

ethnic

English

Alternative forms

* ethnick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.
    • There are many ethnic Indonesians in the Netherlands
  • Belonging to a foreign culture.
    • I like to eat ethnic food
  • (historical) Heathen, not Judeo-Christian-Muslim.

    • Derived terms

    * antiethnic * ethnic cleansing * ethnic group * ethnic minority

    Related terms

    * ethnicity * ethnically * ethnical * ethnicity * ethnocentric * ethnocultural * ethnography * ethnologeny * ethnology

    Synonyms

    * (culturally foreign) exotic * (heathen) pagan, gentile

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
  • An ethnic minority. (rfex)
  • (archaic) A heathen, a pagan.
  • *
    • ..for the learned know that even in St. Jerome's time, the consul of Rome and his wife were both Ethnics , and about the same time the greatest part of the senate also...
  • * 1641 . .
    • ...And the people of God, redeemed and washed with Christ's blood, and dignified with so many glorious titles of saints and sons in the Gospel, are now no better reputed than impure ethnics and lay dogs...
  • (in classical scholarship ) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city
  • * 2006 . Cohen. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin & North Africa , 151.
    • "Coinage with the ethnic ????????? ???? ???????? survives from the mid-second century A.D."

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    ethnocracy

    English

    (wikipedia ethnocracy)

    Noun

    (ethnocracies)
  • A form of government in which a particular ethnic group holds a disproportionate amount of government power.
  • *{{quote-book, 2005, Paul Dresch, Monarchies and Nations citation
    • , passage=In this sense, ethnocracy as a socio-political regime is outcome of ethnonationalism, that brand of nationalism that views the nation as a "natural" and ethnically "pure" community, as opposed to its liberal conceptualisation as a community based on equal rights and duties.}}

    Related terms

    *ethnocratic