Cultural things can be transmitted through geographic proximity rather than along ethnic lines, using "ethnic" in its original sense of "from a foreign nation"

Cultural things can be transmitted through geographic proximity rather than along ethnic lines, using "ethnic" in its original sense of "from a foreign nation" (ethnos). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%94%CE%B8%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%94%CE%B8%CE%BD%CE%BF%C... There are rural New England cultural practices which transcend ethnic groupings (Italian, Irish, etc).