Relating to or causing the formation, development, or origin of ethnic groups or ethnic identities.
From ethno- (ethnic group) and -genic (Greek 'genesis' meaning origin/birth). A specialized academic term used in anthropology and ethnography to discuss how groups develop distinct identities.
Some events are ethnogenic—meaning they actually create new ethnic identities where none clearly existed before, like how migration and cultural mixing created entirely new ethnic groups in the Caribbean.
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