Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shevardnadze spoke approvingly last week of the political upheavals in Eastern Europe, maintaining that each country has "absolute freedom of choice." But what if ethnic or nationalist rivalries erupt? Suppose Soviet and East European notions of reform become incompatible? What if, for instance, Hungary or Poland should choose to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact? "We keep thinking that Hungary, Poland and East Germany have hit the threshold of Soviet forbearance," says David Ratford, a Soviet and East European expert in the British Foreign Office. "We are at a loss to explain how the threshold has been moved time and time...
...widely acceptable to denigrate rural Americans? The liberal Perspective, which would never apply derogatory labels to ethnic minorities or gays, thought nothing of calling rural Southerners "naive rednecks." It hasn't been that long since the Harvard Lampoon printed a public apology for being racially insensitive, but it has yet to apologize for a cover that depicted lazy, dirty Appalachians under the caption "Inbred and Brain Dead...
...looking for people we enjoy being with, and that cuts across any social, economic, religious or ethnic barriers," one would-be fraternity founder told The New York Times last week. The student's sentiment--echoing a familiar plea at this large College--is natural, even admirable, but his would be method is not. Pursuing the end of social contact, fraternities create the illusion of trading in the difficult, human endeavor of understanding each other in the real world for the phony bonhomie of a club...
...destination he has in mind. De Klerk's policy, fully endorsed by the ruling National Party, is one of constitutionally guaranteed "group rights" defined by race, including the right of whites to veto legislation they might consider threatening, to live in whites-only neighborhoods and to attend segregated schools. "Ethnic and cultural ; differences exist," says Viljoen, "and should be recognized in a new constitution...
...think it is entirely Moscow's fault that the conflict is not resolved yet," he said, speaking of the struggle between Azerbaijan and Christian Armenia. Kasparov said he doubted a quick solution can be found to religious and ethnic strife there that has killed hundreds, displaced approximately 100,000 and threatened to burst into civil...