Sentence examples for ethnic terms from inspiring English sources

Even more troublesome were ethnic terms, like "street Arab" and "Jew down".

Ordinary people are now expressing their political loyalties in purely ethnic terms.

"New Yorkers often think of neighborhoods in racial and ethnic terms," Professor Mollenkopf said.

I don't think he sees his tax program in ethnic terms at all.

And at times, each of them has viewed opposition to their confirmations in racial or ethnic terms.

Officials openly espoused President Franjo Tudjman's notion that, in ethnic terms, "once cleansed" should mean "always cleansed".

And the menu is substantial, not just appetizers and entrees but also a half-dozen sides, some dishes to be shared, and an assortment of charcuterie or salumi (pick your ethnic term and allegiance).

Identity to them is defined in ethnic and cultural terms, on a regional, national and civilisational level.

The revelation that Latinos don't care which of the two labels they get slapped with likely stems from the fact that most Hispanics identify primarily by country of origin rather than pan-ethnic terms, according to earlier polling by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Instead, 51percentt of respondents preferred to be grouped by their country of origin, while only 24percentt said they favored a pan-ethnic term such as "Latino" or "Hispanic".

A 2014 study by the think tank Demos focusing on a nine-day period in November 2012 found "approximately 10,000 uses per day of racist and ethnic slur terms", of which 500-2,000 were directed at individuals.