英和和英

語源

From multi- +‎ ethnic.

形容詞

multiethnic (comparative more multiethnic, superlative most multiethnic)

1. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of several ethnic groups.
   • 1993 Alexander J. Motyl - Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine After Totalitarianism

     In general, they are propagating the image of Ukrainians as the European descendants of good peasant stock, of multiethnic pioneers, and of an ancient multiethnic state.

   • 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 3:

     As a multicultural and multiethnic society, Singapore has four official languages: Malay, Mandarin, Tamil, and English, with Malay considered the national language and English as a nominally neutral ‘working language’ allowing communication across all communities.

使用する際の注意点

In 2006 British anthropological surveys by Peter J. Aspinall et al, out of 311 student respondents who identified as “mixed race” and 15 who did not, seven found the term “multiethnic” offensive and 23 indicated it was a preferred term.^[1]

派生語

• multiethnicity

名詞

multiethnic (複数形 multiethnics)

1. A member of more than one ethnic group.

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