ethnic heritage

collocation in English

meaningsofethnicandheritage

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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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heritage
noun
uk
/ˈher.ɪ.tɪdʒ/us
/ˈher.ɪ.t̬ɪdʒ/
features belonging to the culture of a particular society, such as traditions, languages, or buildings, that were created in the past and still have ...
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(Definition ofethnicandheritagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofethnic heritage

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Similarly, the split might be attributed to differentethnicheritage.
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So how can thisethnicheritagebe transmitted?
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If neither geography norethnicheritagecan account for these qualitative differences, what are they due to?
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The first part stemmed, again, from hisethnicheritage.
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He also examined the children's racial andethnicheritage.
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Muchethnicheritagehas been preserved through widely attended tourist events.
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Its archives, artifacts, and structures today are important documents for the study of immigration,ethnicheritage, and 19th century communitarian societies.
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Some individuals may not have eachethnicheritage, and some may have additional ancestries.
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The first was due to hisethnicheritage.
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The percentage of students from a minorityethnicheritageis small, mirroring the profile in the locality.
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A distinct feature of this parish is the interesting racial orethnicheritageof its inhabitants.
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Phyles are groups of people often distinguished by shared values, similarethnicheritage, a common religion, or other cultural similarities.
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His jingle highlights hisethnicheritage, political beliefs and occupation all in a five-word jingle.
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Casals'sethnicheritageand poor background immediately set her apart from most of the other players.
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Penn uses his writing to explore and reconcile his mixedethnicheritage, writing fiction, essays and reviews.
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Both neighborhoods experienced a major decline in business and population when the areas industries folded, although much of theethnicheritageof the communities still thrives to this day.
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She is of mixedethnicheritage.
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