Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This intellectual jump from Point A to Point B is ludicrous. Mr. Melikian simply cannot seriously support a link between legally requiring the U.S. government to use English exclusively and destroying the cultural identity of certain ethnic groups. This legislation in no way asks minorities to become Anglo-phones. It does not seek to take away the defining characteristics of the myriad ethnic groups which comprise our American society. It is not xenophobic. It is not racist. It does not evoke images of genocide...
...more and more according to the diverse backgrounds and experiences they can import into the student body. In other facets of the university as well, variety is prevailing over quality. Witness the accelerating proliferation of concentrations, special concentrations and sub-concentrations, and the clamor for even more, such as ethnic studies...
...tale of disasters, deceit, betrayals, exploitation and missed opportunities going back centuries, but the part that matters here began in 1991. Buoyed by Saddam's humiliating defeat in Kuwait that year, they rebelled, hoping at last to gain the separate homeland that has perpetually eluded more than 20 million ethnic Kurds spread across Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. The revolt failed when Saddam turned his surviving corps of helicopter gunships on them, and they fled in despair into the northern mountains...
...worker, sitting in the tiny room he shares with his wife and two daughters in Muslim-held territory south of the city, "I'm still too shocked from the beating I got the last time I tried to cross." Wherever they vote, Bosnians are expected to vote along rigidly ethnic lines. Every indication is that these elections--intended as the means to reunify the country by creating a three-member presidency and a bicameral parliament--will instead solidify and ratify the divisions...
...would be allowed to return home. After all, the war had ended four months earlier. Instead, he was met by several thousand angry Serbs wielding pitchforks and throwing rocks. Among them was the prospective Serb city councilman, Predrag Kujundzic, 35, a massive, one-time bouncer responsible for the "ethnic cleansing" of several Muslim villages in the area in 1992. After flattening Esad with his thick fist, Kujundzic left him to other Serbs who pummeled him with clubs and stones until, bleeding and immobile, he was thrown back into Muslim territory...