Ethnic
Ethnic adjective - Of, relating to, or reflecting the traits exhibited by a group of people with a common ancestry and culture.
Usage example: children who were raised in a home where there was a strong ethnic consciousness
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Folk and ethnic are semantically related. in cultural topic. In some cases you can use "Folk" instead an adjective "Ethnic".
Folk
Folk noun - One of the segments of society into which people are grouped.
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The more general term "folk punk" is used to refer to the style played without any self-conscious ethnic alignment.
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Goldsmith was also a studious researcher of ethnic music, and found uses for South American Zampoñas in Under Fire, native tribal chants in Congo, and brilliantly interwove a traditional Irish folk melody with African rhythms in The Ghost and the Darkness.
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These atrocities are still denied by certain Japanese ultra-nationalists, to the understandable anger of... well, pretty much anyone with a heart, but especially ethnic-Chinese folk.
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