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As I said, it depends on how restrictive a definition of ethnicity you use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ethnic

> pertaining to or characteristic of a people, especially a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.

The inhabitants of a city usually share a common and distinctive culture (and the like.) You're using extremely narrow definitions of genocide as well as ethnicity. Both are vague terms.



  > As I said, it depends on how restrictive
  > a definition of ethnicity you use.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean --- neither more nor less."

You appear to be choosing definitions that don't match those in dictionaries, but I'm sure they're perfectly cromulent.




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