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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Synonyms for Ethnic
Original and ethnic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Original" instead an adjective "Ethnic".
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- However, Into Darkness drew a lot of criticism for the Race Lift of the ethnic Indian Khan Noonien Singh into a white guy (though it's worth noting the original actor was Hispanic).
Source: Humans Are White - Bullock, who first showed up in the original comics in the mid-1980s, is a large white man (albeit a vaguely "ethnic" one, as he was voiced by an Italian-American actor in the animated series).
Source: Positive Discrimination - The Ultimen are the Wonder Twins and the other original "ethnic" characters from Super Friends, only competent.
Source: Canon Foreigner
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Original or Ethnic. 2016. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/ethnic/original.
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