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Ethnicity vs Lineage - What's the difference?

ethnicity | lineage |

As nouns the difference between ethnicity and lineage

is that ethnicity is the common characteristics of a group of people while lineage is descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

ethnicity

English

Noun

(ethnicities)
  • The common characteristics of a group of people.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) 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?}}
  • An ethnic group.
  • lineage

    English

    Alternative forms

    * linage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=July 19 , author=Ella Davies , title=Sticks insects survive one million years without sex , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction. }}
  • (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
  • * 1927 , William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical
  • Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region

    See also

    * genealogy

    References

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