Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Impassioned reporting can help awaken readers to the abuse of human rights or the needs of persecuted ethnic and national groups. Distorted, sensational, and ultimately numbing reporting on Israel, on the other hand, while it may have some immediate effect on the plight of the Palestinians, in the long run makes support for the Palestinians secondary to condemnation of Israel. Such reporting will serve only nations like Jordan and Syria--the truer, deeper and more longstanding enemies of Palestinian statehood...
...similar manner, minority students are expected to do more than act just as students. In addition to academic work, they must present themselves at all times as a good example of their ethnic group (i.e., don't flunk out), educate peers about their cultural problems and be politically active in minority as well as non-minority affairs...
...reality, culture is a result of shared experience, and social interaction is often a reflection of cultural norms. Cultural activities should not be "just a show" to be viewed by outsiders but also a celebration of experience by those participating. Social interaction occurs amongst individuals of a particular ethnic group as an enunciation of particular means of communication. For example, those who do not know the degree of respect given to elders and the responsibilities of older persons toward their juniors in Confucian cultures will not understand that "adopting a little brother" is an expression of cultural heritage...
...experience of active and vital communities of color does not counteract the Admissions Office's laudable efforts to diversify the student body as Hsia claims. Instead, minority organizations which serve individual and community needs celebrate the diversity that Harvard-Radcliffe does have. To expect students who come from ethnic communities to disassociate themselves from their previous experience is ridiculous, and to deny minority students who do not come from ethnic communities the opportunity to share experiences and celebrate a heritage is racist. It is racist because America is a pluralist society where different experiences should not be ranked in order...
...Belgrade half a million resentful Serbs chanting "Kosovo is Serbian!" demanded a drastic expansion of their control over the province and stiff retaliatory measures against the ethnic Albanian majority. The spiraling unrest drove Raif Dizdarevic , leader of Yugoslavia's collective presidency, to dispatch paramilitary units and tanks into Kosovo while banning all public gatherings. The unrest also exacerbated the rift between Serbia and the republic of Slovenia...