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Ethnic group
An ethnic group or ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience. Unlike most other social groups, ethnicity is primarily an inherited status. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritageancestryorigin myth, history, homeland, language and/or dialect, symbolic systems such as religionmythology and ritualcuisinedressing style, art, and physical appearance.

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