Meaning of ethnic gloss | Babel Free

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A broad label for a population that ignores or overlooks the diversity within it.

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“LaFromboise identifies one of the biggest challenges to doing this work in Native communities as heterogeneity, with nearly 1,000 tribes in the so-called United States...Thus, when it comes to national data sets on suicide statistics, “we’re looking at an ethnic gloss to some extent,” says LaFromboise”[…]””

“When a term such as Hispanics is used to describe this diverse group as a single entity, this is known as an ethnic gloss.”

“A failure to acknowledge heterogeneity results in overgeneralization which has been previously referred to as ethnic gloss.”

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