Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possible that Thernstrom's attitude may have seemed careless at times, or condescending. However, his intent is what must be considered. His presentation of the material was fair and at no time favored one racial or ethnic group over another. One must act on the assumption that any apparent condescension was due to thoughtlessness or to the inherent awkwardness of the material itself...
THERNSTROM may have been thoughtless, careless, or foolish; he was not racially insensitive. Any treatment of racial or ethnic groups is difficult and awkward by nature because by setting a group apart one takes on the role of observer and judge. This role is not assumed by choice but prescribed by the subject matter. Ethnicity is a difficult subject to treat because people are afraid to confront the basic fact that people are different. Some of them are more advantaged than others by whatever accidents of circumstance place their ethnic group in their socioeconomic context. Any class on immigration...
...Republican candidates to raise funds, identify potential supporters and get out the vote on Election Day. Carefully built up over the course of several congressional and presidential campaigns, the list now contains tens of millions of voter names, along with each one's age, address, telephone number, party enrollment, ethnic origin and income level. Not to be out- teched, the Democrats have launched their own computer initiative, an ambitious effort to identify some 16 million swing voters who might be persuaded to switch allegiance at the last minute...
...Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe is engaged in mythmaking; he considers the creation of a new set of legends to suit the multi-colored ethnic New York of today. But in the end, his myths are negations of the existing order. The only resolution possible is complete annihilation--the bonfire...
...accurate, comprehensive scope of the composition of a class at specific points throughout the applications process," said Eun. Thus, it would be difficult for the Committee to keep track of the exact number of minority admittees, and virtually impossible to establish any kind of systematic bias against a specific ethnic group...