ethnic minorities

plural noun

: people who belong to an ethnic group that is a relatively small part of a population

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Nine of the league’s 28 General Counsels are racial or ethnic minorities, including two Asian-American, four Black, and three Hispanic/Latino General Counsels. —

Chris Deubert, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024 Researchers have found less tree canopy on average in communities mostly inhabited by racial and ethnic minorities in the 1930s, when financial services were withheld due to the discriminatory housing policy known as redlining. —

Jennifer McDermott and Alexa St. John, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2024 The numbers reveal almost stagnant progress while Black employees face the biggest pay gap compared to other ethnic minorities overall. —

Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 18 Oct. 2024 But as part of a push into lands populated by ethnic minorities, the Chinese government has seeded Tibet and the neighboring Xinjiang region with new infrastructure. —

New York Times, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ethnic minorities

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