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ethnic group
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ethnic group
[eth′nik]
a population of individuals organized on the basis of an assumed common cultural origin.

ethnic group,
n a population of individuals organized around an assumption of common cultural origin.

ethnic group
Social medicine A group whose members (1) have a sense of common origins; (2) claim a common and distinctive Hx and destiny; (3) possess one or more dimensions of collective cultural individuality; (4) have a sense of unique collective solidarity. See Cultural awareness, Race.


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