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...often Woodbridge was left with Eastern European members not because others were shut out, but because they chose not to participate. Although Woodbridge provides international freshmen their first introduction to Harvard, within one or two years many students become closer to their respective ethnic organizations. Fuerza Latina, Harvard African Students Association, and the South Asian Association steadily pull active membership away from Woodbridge...
...Vuuren’s new board is sure its ethnic heterogeneity will bring more to the organization. “Having connections to other cultural groups will really help us bring a lot of students closer. If all the board members are from the same region, you are simply less likely to connect with as many members,” Rebecca R. Gong ’08 says...
...Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari- the first government chosen by Iraqis themselves in a half-century-is an historic milestone. It is difficult to envisage circumstances in which Iraqis would be prepared to surrender their hard-earned right to choose their leaders. Unfortunately, democracy has not resolved the ethnic conflict among them, which is being played out both in parliament and in the daily bloodbaths served up by the insurgency...
...been given to Sunnis, and their absence points to growing fissures in Iraq. The new government is dominated by the Shiite coalition that won January's election, and most of the remaining seats went to the Kurdish parties that finished second with some 27 percent of the vote. The ethnic makeup of the government, in itself, is a revolutionary development, since the Shiite majority and the Kurdish minority have always been marginalized from power in Baghdad - as they have throughout the Arab world - by a Sunni Arab minority that numbers less than 20 percent of Iraq's population...
...according to NAHC Finance Commissioner Kyle E. Scherer ’05, Native Americans are unique from other ethnic minorities because they must prove their heritage in order to qualify for certain rights...