Sociology

Ethnic Nepotism

Ethnic Nepotism

The word ethnic nepotism describes a human trend for in-group bias or in-group favouritism put on by nepotism if you have the same ethnicity in just a multi-ethnic society. The word was coined inside the 1960s in the context in the ethnic (tribal) stresses and rivalry inside the then-recently independent says in Sub-Saharan Africa like Nigeria.