Ethnoracialism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A belief in racial and/or ethnic separatist ideologies, emphasizing perceived social and cultural differences among racially defined ethnic groups. uncountable
"The oppressors in turn embraced their victims, whom they had demonized as terrorists. Given the ideological warfare and the real battles and atrocities that had taken place in the name of ethnoracialism during four decades of formal apartheid, this pragmatic reconciliation disproves the essentialist and primordialist notions of ..."
Example
More examples"The oppressors in turn embraced their victims, whom they had demonized as terrorists. Given the ideological warfare and the real battles and atrocities that had taken place in the name of ethnoracialism during four decades of formal apartheid, this pragmatic reconciliation disproves the essentialist and primordialist notions of ..."
Etymology
From ethnoracial + -ism or ethno- + racialism.
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