GLOSSARY: Ethnicity

Association with a group of people based on common culture, heritage, social norms, nationality, ancestry, homeland, religion/mythology, language, and/or cuisine and other similar categories. Ethnicity primarily refers to the social or cultural aspect of someone’s identity, as compared to race, which refers primarily to someone’s shared physical characteristics with a group of people. 

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