Ethnic
Ethnic adjective - Of, relating to, or reflecting the traits exhibited by a group of people with a common ancestry and culture.
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Indigenous and ethnic are semantically related. in cultural topic. In some cases you can use "Indigenous" instead an adjective "Ethnic", when it comes to topics like racial.
Indigenous
Indigenous adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.
Ethnic and indigenous are semantically related. You can use "Ethnic" instead an adjective "Indigenous".
Nearby Word: indigene
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Arabs are not the only indigenous inhabitants of Yemen; there is the minority South Arabian ethnic groups, who speak languages closer to the Ethiopian Semitic languages than they do to Arabic.
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Soldiers carried out acts of mass politicide, and ethnic cleansing and genocide of the indigenous Mayan population became a feature of the war.
Source: Sociopathic Soldier - Arakawa herself said that the Ishbalans were partly inspired by the Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group who suffered persecution and cultural genocide in Japan.
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