ethnic consciousness

collocation in English

meaningsofethnicandconsciousness

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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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consciousness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkɒn.ʃəs.nəs/us
/ˈkɑːn.ʃəs.nəs/
the state of understanding and ...
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(Definition ofethnicandconsciousnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These language demands furthermore are articulated by language leaders, who have been active in creatingethnicconsciousnessbased on language loyalty.
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Rather, modern customs and political tribalism result from the impact of colonialism on traditions and forms ofethnicconsciousnessthat lie in the past.
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Nugent demonstrates through local case studies, that ' forging anethnicconsciousnesswas laborious, discontinuous and above all contested ' (p. 146).
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This decentralized and fragmentedethnicconsciousnesswas heightened in the ' frontier ' zones, the zones of encounter between groups that spoke different languages and had different kin networks and migration routes.
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We should bear in mind, however, that thisethnicconsciousnessdid not at all preclude ' intra-ethnic ' feuds, which were probably as frequent or even more important than inter-ethnic conflicts.
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However, these scholars caution that a rise inethnicconsciousnessdid not have an impact on the official imperial ideology.
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At the same time, a sense ofethnicconsciousnessand unity was forming, especially among the youth, around the plight of the farmworkers.
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Resistance resulted in increased regional consciousness rather than localethnicconsciousness.
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Pohlin's historiographic work is considered of little worth but it was important in boosting theethnicconsciousnessof his contemporary countymen.
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As he saw it, anethnicconsciousnesswas biologically and psychologically necessary: it helped structure perception, giving humans a reference point between the particularity and generality.
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