Genealogy vs Ethnicity - What's the difference?
genealogy | ethnicity |
(countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.
(countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.
(uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.
The common characteristics of a group of people.
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An ethnic group.
As nouns the difference between genealogy and ethnicity
is that genealogy is (countable) the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree while ethnicity is the common characteristics of a group of people.genealogy
Alternative forms
* geneology (common misspelling)Noun
Synonyms
* pedigreeSee also
* family historyethnicity
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?}}