polyethnic

comparative more polyethnic · superlative most polyethnic

1. That contains people who together represent multiple ethnicities, especially such that they coexist and interact harmoniously.

   In the last 20 years, the sharp increase in immigration has brought "new faces in the crowd" and a much more polyethnic and multicultural country.

   1999, Gilles Paquet, Governance Through Social Learning, page 29

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   In some European states, however, the reverse applies and the rights of national minorities (in Belgium and Switzerland, for example) have long been recognised but an accommodation of immigrants and a more polyethnic society has been far less forthcoming.

   2004, Stephen May, “Chapter 12: Accommodating Multiculturalism and Biculturalism: Implications for language policy”, in Paul Spoonley, David George Pearson, editors, Tangata Tangata: The Changing Ethnic Contours of New Zealand, page 252

   And thus it is a very good bet that those societies that are becoming more and more polyethnic will experience increasing ethnic conflict. In fact, it is happening already.

   2015, Stephen K. Sanderson, Modern Societies: A Comparative Perspective, page 191

2. Who identifies as being of multiple ethnicities.