Original sentence: "  The adjective is derived from the noun ethnos, which meant foreign people or nations." Althought this interpretation ocasionally leads to an unfortunate state of.It is a term also used to justify real or imagined historic ties as well.The word English word Ethnic(k) also used to mean Heathen or non-Christian, and is still used occasionally to mean that, although rarely.While ethnicity and race are related concepts, the concept of ethnicity is rooted in the idea of social groups, marked especially by shared nationality, tribal affiliation, religious faith, shared language, or cultural and traditional origins and backgrounds, whereas race is rooted in the idea of biological classification of Homo sapiens to subspecies according to arbitrarily chosen genotypic and/or phenotypic traits.missinformation like in the case of people deriving from the many spanish speaking nations of central and South America, who can hardly be grouped into one ethnic group
Edited sentence: "  The adjective is derived from the noun ethnos, which means nation." Althought this interpretation ocasionally leads to an unfortunate state of missinformation as in the case of people deriving from the many Spanish-speaking nations of Central and South America, which may or may not be one ethnic group.It is a term also used to justify real, adopted, or imagined historic ties as well.While ethnicity and race are somewhat related concepts, the concept of ethnicity is rooted in the idea of social groups, marked especially by shared nationality, tribal affiliation, religious faith, shared language, or cultural and traditional origins and backgrounds, or as with the US census, simple self-nomination, whereas race is rooted in the idea of biological classification of Homo sapiens to subspecies according to arbitrarily chosen genotypic and/or phenotypic traits