Panethnicity
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Panethnicity is a political neologism used in multicultural societies for the grouping together, and collective labeling, of various independently distinguishable, self-identified and self-sustained ethnicities into one all-encompassing group of people.
The term appears to have been coined in the United States in the 1990s to replace what used to be called race; e.g. the Asian Americans can be described as "a panethnicity" of various unrelated peoples of Asia which are nevertheless perceived as a distinguishable group within the larger multi-racial North American society.
Often labels of panethnicity group together people of different nationalities and/or ethnicities that may in fact be very different from each other. The grouping is often done based on similar physical characteristics, sharing of a common language, or sharing of a common religion.
See also
- List of Panethnicities
- Pan-Slavism
- Hispanidad
- Pan-Turkism
- Pan-Germanism
- Turanism
- Ethnic nationalism
- Romantic Nationalism
- Meta-ethnicity
- Indians
- Chinese nationalities
