ethnic minorities
plural noun
: people who belong to an ethnic group that is a relatively small part of a population
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While global headlines fixate on Iran’s nuclear program or its regional power plays, another crisis rages just beneath the surface, the oppression of Afghan refugees and ethnic minorities within Iran.
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Jila Andalib, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2025
In the highlands of Sa Pa, I was invited to lead photography workshops and create a website to share the voices of local ethnic minorities.
—Vogue, 25 July 2025
Many local businesses closed, while discriminatory practices such as redlining—in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities—stymied new growth, and Nixon’s War on Drugs consumed generations of young men.
—Lauren O'Neill Butler
july 2, Literary Hub, 2 July 2025
Iranians are also religious and ethnic minorities in the wider world, and that has bred existential fears of foreign conquest.
—Robin Wright, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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Jila Andalib, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2025
In the highlands of Sa Pa, I was invited to lead photography workshops and create a website to share the voices of local ethnic minorities.
—Vogue, 25 July 2025
Many local businesses closed, while discriminatory practices such as redlining—in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities—stymied new growth, and Nixon’s War on Drugs consumed generations of young men.
—Lauren O'Neill Butler
july 2, Literary Hub, 2 July 2025
Iranians are also religious and ethnic minorities in the wider world, and that has bred existential fears of foreign conquest.
—Robin Wright, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for ethnic minorities
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“Ethnic minorities.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethnic%20minorities. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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