A white person is not an ethnic person. In general, white constitutes being rootless. Many with a set knowledge of their heritage, such as those within Italian or Greek diasporas, do not consider themselves white.
Ethnic, however, refers to non-white, aka coloured. It is derived from colonist practices of "othering" and refers to those seeming foreign/ not deemed with the privilege of being Caucasian.
See the dictionary.
eth·nic   [eth-nik]
–adjective
1. pertaining to or characteristic of a people, esp. a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
2. referring to the origin, classification, characteristics, etc., of such groups.
3.being a member of an ethnic group, esp. of a group that is a minority within a larger society: ethnic Chinese in San Francisco.
4.of, pertaining to, or characteristic of members of such a group.
5.belonging to or deriving from the cultural, racial, religious, or linguistic traditions of a people or country: ethnic dances.
6.
Obsolete. pagan; heathen.
Miley Cyrus is not ethnic. Her Texan culture is just that, a culture. Being Texan is not an ethnicity. Demi Lovato's character Sunny is only described as being from some boring place in the US. Once again, not a reference to her ethnicity.
Regardless, in the sense that I was referring to and that most refer to are those not within the hegemonic norm. Aka, minorities.
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