Zawe Ashton

I had a meeting a while back with a big group of women - actors and producers and writers - who are all ethnic minorities and we just aired what we thought was happening and why, and someone said that, as a black or mixed race actress, you feel like you're renting space instead of carving out a career. But I'm just going to get on with it.

English Actress

Eric Greitens

The U.S. military may well be the best-integrated large institution on the planet. You have people from every corner of the country, every ethnic background, every walk of life, and we all come together to serve.

American Politician

Jess Row

The truth is that much of the plastic surgery we see today has a racial or ethnic component because it has to do with inherently racial concepts of physical perfection, like the 'Roman nose.

American Novelist

Thomas Sowell

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

American Economist

Freida Pinto

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

Indian Actress

Jose Serrano

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

Al D'Amato

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Jim Harrison

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

American Writer

Billy Dee Williams

The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.

American Actor

Ruth Rendell

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

British Writer

Used to describe attributes that symbolize a group's heritage and characteristics.

Cultural Identity

'Ethnic' refers to more than race, including traditions, language, and history.

Broader Usage

'Ethnic' can refer to dominant cultures; not exclusively foreign or exotic ones.

Not Always Foreign

Often implies belonging to a less dominant social group in a particular society.

Minority Context

Use with awareness of potential sensitivity due to historical or social discrimination.

Potential Sensitivity

Show respect and understanding when referring to people with diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Empathy in Usage

Remember each 'ethnic' is an individual with their own unique experiences and stories.

Individuals, Not Stereotypes

Acknowledge the historical challenges faced by many ethnics regarding equality.

Historical Struggles

'Ethnic' doesn't exclusively apply to immigrants but also to native-born citizens.

Not Only Outsiders

 Our political, ethnic, religious, and national identities are all different forms of partisanship. Of course, identifying with social groups is an essential and healthy part of human life. Our sense of self is defined not only by who we are as individuals, but also by the groups we belong to.

Do politics make us...

 are better or worse than others, superior or inferior than others. We're either being racist, or we're being anti-racist. We're expressing notions that the racial groups are equals, despite any cultural or even ethnic differences. We're either supporting policies that are leading

The difference between...

 You see, nature doesn't care about your race. That's man-made. Nature just cares about healthy organisms, and your precious ethnic features are expendable to that aim. So the moment that you let go of that racist identity and relatch onto humanity, all your problems go away.

A Black man goes...

 this world than being tapped for having natural ability in medicine south asians are no longer caricatures like apu but we still normalize our identities under certain conventions whether they're ambitious doctors or the token ethnic person tasked with

After Decades of...

 but all the way to ethnic cleansing and genocide, and that has been adjudicated in the highest war crimes court in the world. So, we know what we were seeing. Trying to tell the world what we were seeing brought us accusations of bias,

How to seek truth in the...

 very strongly centered in Jakarta here and it was a very centralized structure and that worked for a while but of course you've got all these different ethnic groups there's all these different interests

Is invisibility the...

 a collective term for shamans of various ethnic groups. They were the community healers, specialists in herbal and divine lore. They delivered babies and communicated with the spirit world.

The gender-fluid history...

 Sherpa does not mean to carry something. It's an ethnic group, it's not a job. I wanted to know about the Sherpa. And reveal a part of their soul and their life and their vision

Unsung Heroes of Everest...

 even though I did not find God, I found a home in even today, in a world fractured by religious, ethnic, political, philosophical, and racial divides,

My failed mission to...

 Today I want to talk to you about ethnic conflict and civil war. These are not normally the most cheerful of topics,