polyethnic
adjEtymology From poly- + ethnic.
1
Of a group or society That contains people who together represent multiple ethnicities, especially such that they coexist and interact harmoniously.
- In the last 20 years, the sharp increase in immigration has brought "new faces in the crowd" and a much more polyethnic and multicultural country.1999, Gilles Paquet, Governance Through Social Learning, page 29:
- In some European states, however, the reverse applies and the rights of national minorities (in Belgium and Switzerland, for example) have long been recognised but an accommodation of immigrants and a more polyethnic society has been far less forthcoming.2004, Stephen May, “Chapter 12: Accommodating Multiculturalism and Biculturalism: Implications for language policy”, in Paul Spoonley, David George Pearson, editors, Tangata Tangata: The Changing Ethnic Contours of New Zealand, page 252:
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- And thus it is a very good bet that those societies that are becoming more and more polyethnic will experience increasing ethnic conflict. In fact, it is happening already.2015, Stephen K. Sanderson, Modern Societies: A Comparative Perspective, page 191:
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Of a person Who identifies as being of multiple ethnicities.
- Synonyms
- multicultural
- Related terms
- ethnic, monoethnic, polyethnicity