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ethnic gloss en · NOUN
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A broad label for a population that ignores or overlooks the diversity within it.
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”[…]”
2023 May 24, Claire Urbanski, “As rates of suicide for Native American youth increase, culture is key to prevention”, in Stanford Univsersity, retrieved 06 Sep 2024:When a term such as Hispanics is used to describe this diverse group as a single entity, this is known as an ethnic gloss.
2024, Diane E. Papalia and Gabriela Martorell Notley, Eperience Human Developement, Fifteenth Edition, page 16:A failure to acknowledge heterogeneity results in overgeneralization which has been previously referred to as ethnic gloss.
2024 January 1, Artie Evan J. White, “Racial Discrimination, School Racial Composition, and Anxiety Symptoms in American Indian Adolescents”, in Journal of Adolescent Health^(https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(23)00480-9/fulltext), page 1:
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