ethnic boundary
collocation in Englishmeaningsofethnicandboundary
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ethnic
adjective
uk/ˈeθ.nɪk/us/ˈeθ.nɪk/
relating or belonging to a group of people who can be seen as distinct (= different) because they have a shared culture, tradition, language, history, ...
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boundary
noun[C]
uk/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/us/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit ...
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(Definition ofethnicandboundaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofethnic boundary
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Religion and matrilineal descent and inheritance operated as anethnicboundaryin this sense.
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Anethnicboundaryhas two sides and both are important.
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For him the initial process occurs inside theethnicboundary, while the second takes place outside.
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The removal of the sand was an act of purification that restored theethnicboundaryby ritual means.
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Although they had to accept important changes, such as taxes, they sought to maintain as much of theethnicboundaryas possible under the new conditions.
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The mere drawing of anethnicboundaryought not to mean poverty to them, and the raw materials ought to flow, whichever way it is.
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Ethnic clashes are always the result of outside, usually political, interests converting porous ethnic boundaries into over-determined enclaves or ghettos to suit their own agenda.
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Industrialization, poverty, and unemployment gave rise to property, as opposed to people-related, offences on a scale that transcended ethnic boundaries and necessitated new policing methods.
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Firmly embedded in the context of mobility, ethnic boundaries seem to have been much more permeable in pre-colonial times than they are today.
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Successful governments and successful opposition movements concentrate on issues which cross ethnic boundaries and aggregate support based on common concerns and interests.
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In the majority of cases, sectarian difference followed ethnic boundaries, making the two near impossible to differentiate.
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The chiefly families of these three chiefdoms intermarry across ethnic boundaries.
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Rather, older traditions were continually reinterpreted, customs were endlessly debated and ethnic boundaries became more or less opposed or permeable.
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From this perspective, problems can only arise because of insufficient flexibility where ethnic boundaries meet.
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There is a general discourse about the protecting power of the shrines and the spirits that inhabit them echoing the main themes of theethnicboundarydescribed earlier.
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Case studies can provide invaluable information about the establishment and maintenance of ethnic boundaries.
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Approaching ethnic boundaries as dynamic entities that change diachronically requires examining why enclaves persist, why they dissolve, and why they become acculturated by the host culture.
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