8 sentences with 'ethnic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ethnic and other words derived from it.
• « It was clear: the former Soviet Union was home to more than a hundred different ethnic groups, with different languages and religions, and with ancestral struggles that went back more than seven centuries. »
• « In turn, although they disrupted and transformed the Holy Land itself for a time, the crusades had little overall impact on the societies of the Middle East itself. These societies represented a cross-section of ethnic, religious and regional identities that underwent major transformations in the period of the early Middle Ages. »
• « Persian became the international language of both scholarship and poetry during this period, with important works written in Persian from northern India to Anatolia by writers of diverse ethnic origins. »
• « The Turks are an interrelated group of peoples originating in Central Asia; they speak several related dialects and share a common ethnic origin. »
• « A racialised hierarchy still existed in New World society, but there was more ethnic mixing in Central and South America than in North America. »
• « Thus, the effects of imperialism lingered long after the former colonies achieved independence in the 20th century, as almost all of them were left with the borders originally created by the imperialists, often along with sharper ethnic divisions than would otherwise have existed. »
• « However, World War I began in 1914 and ultimately dealt the empire its death blow, as European powers attacked it directly and fomented uprisings among its ethnic and religious minorities. »
• « However, even as British and French politicians initiated plans to divide Ottoman territory into protectorates (called "mandates" after the war) under their control, the leader of the Young Turks, Mustafa Kemal, waged a major military campaign to preserve not the independence of the Ottomans but of Turkey, and the other ethnic groups that had lived under Ottoman rule were pushed aside or destroyed. »