"Ethnic heritage" refers to the ancestry or cultural background of a person or a group of people. It includes their traditions, customs, language, and heritage passed down from their ancestors. Full definition
Take, for example, the case of a person who is a Christian partner, but also favors a Christian partner, but also prefers a different ethnic heritage. (relationshipsdatingtips.com)
Others were groping down false paths toward the reform of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that of the recent past) that the faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a kind of ethnic heritage. (firstthings.com)
More often, companies are eager to get diversity, but until you get women or people of different racial and ethnic heritage in senior positions, it's hard to get other people to see it as a possibility. (nreionline.com)