Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inhabited by or containing many races or nationalities.
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Examples
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Great American Taxi, pursuing a slightly less "polyethnic" take on Americana.
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The Druze are a rather more complicated case because their own tradition, supported by genetic evidence is that the formative community of the Druze were polyethnic.
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The Druze are a rather more complicated case because their own tradition, supported by genetic evidence is that the formative community of the Druze were polyethnic.
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It's a serious issue: India, as a multireligious and polyethnic state, must have a government that guarantees and protects the rights of all minorities.
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But more than that, the Europe you speak of is one that attempts to fashion polyethnic states from monoethnic nationalist moulds.
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But so far, in the age of nationalism, most polyethnic states have used the state power to strengthen the “majority,” which has claimed to “own” and to represent the state.
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Switzerland is another example of a polyethnic state.
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German-speaking Swiss; but psychologically they do consider themselves not a minority but an equal part - ner in a polyethnic nation.
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Fundamental for the solution of the problems of duo - or polyethnic states is not pri - marily the attitude of the minority or minorities but that of the majority.
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For a polyethnic state will prosper on the national (state) and interna - tional level, if psychologically the feeling of a “major - ity” and “minority” relationship does not exist.
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