ethnicity

noun ethnicity

• culture — Culture consists of activities such as the arts and philosophy, which are considered to be important for the development of civilization and of people's minds.
• origin — something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.
• background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
• customs — the part of a port, airport, frontier station, etc, where baggage and freight are examined for dutiable goods and contraband
• nationality — the status of belonging to a particular nation, whether by birth or naturalization: the nationality of an immigrant.