Why this word is great
ETHNOPOLITICS — [Noun] The political theory and activity grounded in the competing interests, identities, and relations of distinct ethnic groups. From the combining form ethno- (from Greek ethnos, meaning "nation, people") + politics (from Greek politikos, meaning "of citizens or the state"). Unlike multiculturalism, which envisions a tapestry of coexistent cultures, or geopolitics, which charts power across mountains and trade routes, ethnopolitics maps the subterranean fault lines of blood and belief. It is the gerrymandered district line drawn along ancestral borders, the census form where a checked box dictates resource allocation, and the campaign speech delivered in the language of the hearth—the relentless machinery of identity, grinding history into future grievance, and proving belonging the oldest and most volatile of political resources.