Descent in example sentence

But the fact that some young people of African, South Asian, or Middle Eastern descent feel so alienated in the European countries of their birth that they are happy to murder their fellow citizens in the name of a revolutionary religious ideology, means that something is amiss.

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His parents were of Russian descent.

At Camp Diva, my non-profit organization, we have these types of conversations all the time as a way to help girls of African descent prepare for their passage into womanhood.

And only about 17 percent are of European descent.

Take the conflict between Congolese of Rwandan descent and the so-called indigenous communities of the Kivus.

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