His mother, Nina Pinchback, was of mixed ethnic descent.

Angelidis is of ethnic Macedonian descent.

It was not until Mr. Wong's appointment in 1996, however, that the club had a chief executive of ethnic Chinese descent.

Many locals are of ethnic German descent.

Tilton was the son of peasants of ethnic Latvian descent.

Portuguese in France are citizens of ethnic Portuguese descent.

Each supposedly embodies a nation with a unique culture and language, its people the product of a common ethnic descent.

However, the claim to a common ethnic descent is in principle very unlikely for all except the most tiny and isolated groups.

Therefore, some say, of the 10 million Polish Americans, only a certain portion are of Polish ethnic descent.

His father is of Albanian ethnic descent, and is Muslim.