The problematic character of the ethnic

This essay discusses the problems exiting in characterizing ethnicity and ethnic groups, and as an input, proposing a definition of the ethnic, and emphasizing the role of domination and the social construction of the "other" as essential elements. It is considered as a form of classification that is exerted from societies and dominant groups to designate the "others"; and that based on cultural differences, sets boundaries and justifies the relations of domination that is exerted on them. Therefore, the ethnic would correspond to a specific type of domination that is sustained and argued on the basis of cultural difference, and used to explain and justify asymmetric and subordinated relations of social groups considered, from power, as culturally different.