ethnic cleansing - Definition of ethnic cleansing noun from Cambridge Dictionary Online: Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus

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n [U]

the organized attempt by one racial or political group to completely remove from a country or area anyone who belongs to another particular racial group, using violence and often murder to achieve this

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ethnic cleansing noun is in the topic Racial issues.

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alien adj alien n anti-Semitic anti-Semitism color line colour bar colour prejudice communal ethnic cleansing ethnic minority foreign foreigner ghetto institutionalized racism Jim Crow minority NF non-racist play the race card race relations racism racist n racist adj Uncle Tom white flight white supremacy

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ethnic cleansing noun

ethnic cleansing noun is in the topic Racial issues.

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