Ethnic vs Morality - What's the difference?
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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.
(uncountable) Recognition]] of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of [[behave, behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.
* 1841 , , Heroes and Hero Worship , ch. 3:
* 1910 , , Theft: A Play In Four Acts , "Characters":
* 1911 , , Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens , ch. 16:
* 1965 , "
(countable) A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.
* 1912 , , Pygmalion , act 5:
* 1917 , . The Yukon Trail , ch. 14:
(countable) A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.
* 1781 , , "Sheffield" in Lives of the Poets :
* 1994 , "Man Convicted of Murder in '92 Bludgeoning," San Jose Mercury News , 4 Nov., p. 2B:
(countable, archaic) A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.
* 1824 , , St. Ronan's Well , ch. 16:
* 1882 , , "Vanitas Vanitatum" in Ballads ,
(uncountable, rare) Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
* 1953 , J. Kemp, "Review of The Claim of Morality'' by N.H.G. Robinson," ''The Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 3, no. 12, p. 278:
(countable, rare) A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
* 1954 , , "Ethics and Moral Controversy," The Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 4, no. 14, p. 11:
As nouns the difference between ethnic and morality
is that ethnic is an ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community while morality is (uncountable) recognition]] of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of [[behave|behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.As an adjective ethnic
is of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.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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Noun
- Without morality , intellect were impossible for him; a thoroughly immoral man'' could not know anything at all! To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first ''love'' the thing, sympathize with it: that is, be ''virtuously related to it.
- Ellery Jackson Hubbard. . . . A man radiating prosperity, optimism and selfishness. Has no morality whatever. Is a conscious individualist, cold-blooded, pitiless, working only for himself, and believing in nothing but himself.
- Science and art without morality are not dangerous in the sense commonly supposed. They are not dangerous like a fire, but dangerous like a fog.
King Moves North," Time , 30 Apr.:
- It may be true that you cannot legislate morality , but behavior can be regulated.
- I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle class morality .
- He smiled a little. "Morality is the average conduct of the average man at a given time and place. It is based on custom and expediency."
- His morality was such as naturally proceeds from loose opinions.
- Deputy District Attorney Bill Tingle called Jones "the devil's right-hand man" and said he should be punished for his "atrocious morality ."
- "She had done her duty"—"she left the matter to them that had a charge anent such things"—and "Providence would bring the mystery to light in his own fitting time"—such were the moralities with which the good dame consoled herself.
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- What mean these stale moralities ,
- Sir Preacher, from your desk you mumble?
- Robinson sums up the conclusion of the first part of his book as being "that the task of the moralist is to set in their proper relation to one another the three different types of moral judgment . . . and so reveal the field of morality as a single self-coherent system".
- Hume's morality' which ‘implies some sentiment common to all mankind’; Kant's '''morality''' for all rational beings; Butler's ' morality with its presupposition of ‘uniformity of conscience’.