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Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019) by santoshalper on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:08PM (#30662552)
"even though people there shared the same ancestry"

It's right there. They are not different ethnicities. They are different religions. The whole point of this is to avoid intellectual laziness and there you go proving their point.

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Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019) by hedora on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:24PM (#30662742)
ethnicity [ (eth- nis-uh-tee) ] :

Identity with or membership in a particular racial, national, or cultural group and observance of that group's customs, beliefs, and language.

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Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019) by tptacek on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:54PM (#30663870)
Religious differences are not generally ethnic.
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