polyethnic

Adjective

polyethnic (comparative more polyethnic, superlative most polyethnic)

1. That contains people who together represent multiple ethnicities, especially such that they coexist and interact harmoniously.
   • In the last 20 years, the sharp increase in immigration has brought "new faces in the crowd" and a much more polyethnic and multicultural country.1999, Gilles Paquet, Governance Through Social Learning, page 29
   • In some European states, however, the reverse applies and the rights of national minorities (in Belgium and Switzerland, for example) have long been recognised but an accommodation of immigrants and a more polyethnic society has been far less forthcoming.2004, Stephen May, “Chapter 12: Accommodating Multiculturalism and Biculturalism: Implications for language policy”, in Paul Spoonley, David George Pearson, editors, Tangata Tangata: The Changing...
2. Who identifies as being of multiple ethnicities.