an affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties
Religion
Many groups of colonists came to the New World to escape religious persecution (def: mistreatment of a group of people based on membership in a group such as religion, race or ethnicity).
Created on Fri Mar 30 13:03:05 EDT 2012
(updated Fri Mar 30 13:10:24 EDT 2012)
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