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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Public and ethnic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Public" instead an adjective "Ethnic".
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Other festivals are observed by particular ethnic or religion groups, but are not public holidays.
Source: Useful Notes / Malaysia - Like Abie's Irish Rose, it was popular with the viewing public, but unlike Rose, offended members of the ethnic groups in question managed to get Bridget Loves Bernie canceled.
Source: Irishman and a Jew -
Five-Token Band: Between the working-class northerner (Jamie), the big black man (Ricky), the ginger Scot (Pete), the middle-class British-Asian (Alex) and the public-schoolboy Captain (Dotsy), the original cast ticked virtually every British socio-ethnic box going.
Source: Series / Ultimate Force
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