Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unspent budget to forge a new merit-based fund. Previously, the council required that the finances of groups be near zero before requesting a grant from the communal ante that it controls. Now, organizations with healthy financial records which act in the student interest are eligible to apply. Ethnic groups like the Black Students Association (BSA), Asian American Association and the Minority Students Alliance, which used to lose out to less financially viable organizations, will benefit most...
...racial discrimination at Texaco demonstrates the need for affirmative action and minorities at the top levels of organizations. To assume that qualified minorities cannot be found is ridiculous, especially when racial and ethnic minorities constitute a large proportion of the U.S. population. The diversity of backgrounds and interests that minorities bring to an organization outweigh any disadvantage of affirmative action. Besides, affirmative action is not a quota system, and so there are no rules that minorities must comprise a certain proportion. Instead, affirmative action ensures that minorities actually reach the top and are able to make decisions for organizations. Although...
...glass ceiling may not be all that amazing, but the racially disparaging comments made by senior executives at the company and incidentally captured on tape come as a surprise. Affirmative action would ensure diversity--ethnic, gender and racial--in the upper ranks of organizations. Prejudice stems largely from ignorance, which we are often accustomed to think of as intellectual ignorance. But ignorance also means unfamiliarity. Since these executives had deliberately kept minorities out of the top ranks, they were not used to working with them on equal status. Texaco did have an official affirmative action policy; had it actually ensured...
...crisis has its immediate roots in the ethnic convulsions that swept over Rwanda in 1994, when Hutu extremists butchered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi, hacking many of them to death with machetes. Fearing Tutsi revenge, 1.7 million Hutu then fled their homes. Those who eventually clustered in Zaire's teeming camps, however, were no ordinary refugees; they included thousands of militiamen, government officials and soldiers dodging punishment for their roles in the Tutsi genocide, which many still seemed determined to carry to its end. Since then the camps have provided these groups with a base from which to wage their...
...group of ethnic Tutsi who have been living in eastern Zaire for more than 200 years, the Banyamulenge have achieved enviable success in a number of lucrative ventures, especially mining. This has made them wealthy and enabled them to arm themselves lavishly, but it has also opened them up to scapegoating by local Zairean demagogues eager to augment their power by whipping up resentment against a people they still see as outsiders. Adding poisonously to this mix was the Hutu refugees' deep hatred for the Tutsi. The Hutu immediately began raiding the mines and goading Zairean leaders to launch pogroms...