Wiping out the ethnic distinctions that have run so deep has been one of his hallmarks.
The law did not make any ethnic distinctions nor racial categories in between the "French" people.
However, this controversy is ahistorical, as it projects modern ethnic distinctions onto the past.
In his world, there was never room for social boundaries, racial barriers, or ethnic or religious distinctions.
In more recent years, ethnic and tribal distinctions have diminished.
The affliction recognizes no religious, racial or ethnic distinction.
By October 1944 the inhabitants of the area, without ethnic distinction, had to make a decision whether to stay or leave.
These ethnic distinctions and subdivisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity.
There appears to be no record of any ethnic distinctions in Pliny's time.
Even then, however, the ethnic distinction, whatever it may signify, is made.