Ethnic vs Multicultural - What's the difference?
ethnic | multicultural |
Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.
Belonging to a foreign culture.
(historical) Heathen, not Judeo-Christian-Muslim.
An ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
An ethnic minority. (rfex)
(archaic) A heathen, a pagan.
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(in classical scholarship ) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city
* 2006 . Cohen. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin & North Africa , 151.
Relating or pertaining to several different cultures
:* 31.X.2001' Viewed from the boardrooms of Britain, the market is becoming more '''multicultural than could have been imagined just five years ago. - ''
As adjectives the difference between ethnic and multicultural
is that ethnic is of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins while multicultural is relating or pertaining to several different cultures.As a noun ethnic
is an ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.ethnic
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Alternative forms
* ethnick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- There are many ethnic Indonesians in the Netherlands
- I like to eat ethnic food
Derived terms
* antiethnic * ethnic cleansing * ethnic group * ethnic minoritySynonyms
* (culturally foreign) exotic * (heathen) pagan, gentileNoun
(en noun)- ..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...
- ...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...
- "Coinage with the ethnic ????????? ???? ???????? survives from the mid-second century A.D."
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Quotations
The Guardian(2001)
