Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This lack of understanding of the biracial and multiracial identity is not just limited to student groups, but extends to the courses offered by the College. Harvard's lack of ethnic studies departments, with the exception of the renowned Department of Afro-American Studies, has been often lamented. Yet even more mainstream minority groups have a wider variety of classes to choose from if they wish to explore their unique cultural heritages...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has made a weak effort to fill the void of multi-ethnic course offerings by creating an Expository Writing course titled "Biculturalism and American Identity," and having a handful of social studies and sociology courses dealing with multiculturalism and racial identity. But these seem to be only token gestures, made in a futile attempt to appear accepting of diversity. It is almost as though the College chooses to ignore the 16 percent of students who refuse to fit into just one of the boxes on the application...
...race as they identify with on the 2000 Census. Hopefully, Harvard and many other societal entities chained to tradition will come to understand that due to the growing rate of interracial marriages, a substantial number of people can no longer only classify themselves as a member of a single ethnic group. This key demographic change must be recognized and the proper measures taken to incorporate the swelling ranks of multiracial individuals...
...critical time in the history of the former Yugoslavia. He won the elections in Croatia by preaching a fiery, intolerant nationalism, rallying Croats to the point of view that only Croats knew how to govern Croats, and that Croatia was for them alone. At a time when ethnic unrest was being stoked on the Serbian side by Slobodan Milosevic, Tudjman jumped in on the other side and denounced Serbs as eagerly as Milosevic denounced other nationalities...
Unfortunately, the extreme nationalists carried the day with their hateful rhetoric and destructive politics, and unleashed the ethnic violence which so horrified the world in Bosnia and still bleeds today in Kosovo. Tudjman deserves respect as a head of state, and for his role in creating a new country, no mean feat under any circumstances. But he does share with many others a great responsibility for the conflagration that shattered so many millions of lives in the former Yugoslavia, and it is entirely comprehensible that the West viewed his passing with reservations...