"family resemblance" meaning in English

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        "Physical similarities shared between close relatives, especially between parents and children and between siblings."
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          "word": "yhdennäköisyys"
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          "text": "What does it mean to be part of the racial majority, and how have different social groups achieved that? Whiteness studies wanted to know. This was a significant shift of the theoretical and empirical gaze, from the subordinate to the dominant, from the minority to the majority, and it shared a family resemblance to the contemporaneous shift in women's studies from studying women to studying men and masculinities.",
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    "Family resemblance (anthropology)",
    "family resemblance"
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