Ethic or ethic means a set of moral precepts or a code of behavior--
He takes the Christian ethic seriously, and refuses to participate in violence.
Her personal ethic forbids her to indulge in whining or backbiting.
Ethnic or ethnic describes something that belongs to a set of people united by language, culture, religion, or race--
They all want to define themselves by ethnic group, instead of by citizenship or nationality.
We like to try the different ethnic restaurants; the food is so interesting.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"We tried to develop a national ethic, so that we wouldn't be divided into ethnic factions."
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