ethnic gloss

English

Noun

ethnic gloss (plural ethnic glosses)

1. A broad label for a population that ignores or overlooks the diversity within it.
   • 2023 May 24, Claire Urbanski, “As rates of suicide for Native American youth increase, culture is key to prevention”, in Stanford Univsersity‎^[1], retrieved September 6, 2024:

     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” […]”

   • 2024, Diane E. Papalia and Gabriela Martorell Notley, Eperience Human Developement, Fifteenth Edition‎^[2], page 16:

     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 January 1, Artie Evan J. White, “Racial Discrimination, School Racial Composition, and Anxiety Symptoms in American Indian Adolescents”, in Journal of Adolescent Health‎^[3], page 1:

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