Transracial: A person who feels that they should be from a different race, meant in a similar way to transexual. It's basically someone who tries to supposedly "act" like a different race, tells people they are of a different race, tries to achieve the look of a different race. For example, Rachel Dolezal.
Transethnic: A person who feels that they should be from a different ethnicity, meant in a similar way to transexual. Ethnicity isn't the same thing as race or nationality. Ethnicity is your family's heritage and it has nothing to do with what country you have citizenship in. This person tells people they are of a different ethnicity and disregards the real ethnicity of their parents, and practices a culture that is different from their family's. This person might learn the language of the ethnicity and they might change their first and last name in order to match the ethnicity. For example; a guy, who was born to an arab family, thinks and acts like he has indian heritage.
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