Word: ethnical
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...class backgrounds, and that more than half expressed an interest in medicine. The college turns away a disproportionate number of them to enhance socioeconomic and academic diversity. Stanford, whose new freshman class will be 16% Asian-American, has acknowledged the possibility of an "unconscious bias" and no longer seeks ethnic identification on admissions forms...
...quota problem is not confined to colleges. At San Francisco's ultracompetitive Lowell High, Chinese Americans constitute 45% of the student body. But no city school may have more than 45% of its students from any ethnic group, a rule originally set by the courts to prevent de facto segregation of blacks and Hispanics. As a result, Lowell is having to turn away qualified Chinese-American students, a task that School Principal Alan Fibish describes as "odious...
...others of that generation also learned from their elders, and by the early 1970s mainland ethnic-pride movements had strong echoes in the islands. Now there is little danger that the old hula forms will die. Zuttermeister has passed on the chants and dance movements, exactly as she learned them, to her daughter Noenoelani Zuttermeister Lewis, 43, and her granddaughter Hauolionalani Lewis, 20. Public schools today teach hula as part of the cultural history of the islands. Teams taught by hula masters compete in hula dance-offs that are approximately as well attended as high school basketball tournaments in Indiana...
Resurgent ethnic pride has brought about a revival of the authentic Hawaiian hula, with its rhythmic swaying and impudent eroticism...
...luckless travelers are ethnic Chinese raised in Viet Nam. In the months leading up to Hanoi's 1979 war with Peking, more than 280,000 of them sought sanctuary in southern China after being ordered out of Viet Nam. Never really accepted in China, many were exploited by the country's prospering rural entrepreneurs...