Ethnicity vs. Nationality

Ethnicitynoun

The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.

Ethnicitynoun

An ethnic group.

Ethnicitynoun

Race; common ancestry.

Ethnicitynoun

an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties;

Nationalitynoun

Membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.

Nationalitynoun

National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.

Nationalitynoun

A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.

Nationalitynoun

Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.

Nationalitynoun

(archaic) Nationalism or patriotism.

Nationalitynoun

The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism.

Nationalitynoun

The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character.

Nationalitynoun

A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by political bias or divisions; a nation.

Nationalitynoun

Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity.

Nationalitynoun

The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc.; as, to record one's nationality on identification papers; the Soviet Union had citizens of many nationalities.

Nationalitynoun

the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization

Nationality

Nationality is a legal identification of a person in international law, establishing the person as a subject, a national, of a sovereign state. It affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state against other states.Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that and By international custom and conventions, it is the right of each state to determine who its nationals are.