"ethnic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When used as a proper noun, the word, as well as its equivalents in other languages often have ethnic nationalist connotations.
- Today, Americans often use the word "gypsy" or variants (for example, "gyp," as to "gyp someone") in derogatory ways, without realizing the ethnic connotations.
- As part of this process, the league's teams were directed to change their names to ones with less ethnic connotations, although this requirement was dropped three years later.
- The term does not have an ethnic connotation, in that a Lusophone may not have any Portuguese ancestry at all.
- Many of these alternatives were designed to avoid or balance the ethnic connotations of Pakhtunkhwa.
- It has been used in two connotations, the first in an ethnic or supra-ethnic connotation, and the second as a term for citizens of the former Yugoslavia.
- Writing in 2009, Professor Christopher Wickham pointed out that "the word 'Frankish' quickly ceased to have an exclusive ethnic connotation.
- Although Phoenix did not have any obvious ethnic connotations, the club used the opportunity to rename itself as Clarence United Football Club.
- He said, too, that bodega carried no ethnic connotations.
- It is normally synonymous with the term nationality although the latter term may also refer to ethnic connotations.
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