Word: ethnicities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Certainly you will find in the student body today much greater diversity than you would have found in 1964," Bok said. "A full 33 percent will come from Asian-American, Black and Hispanic ethnic minorities...
...minute question-and-answer session following the speeches, however, alumni shot back with three questions concerning diversity issues, including one on the University's commitment to women's and ethnic studies courses...
Despite its current troubles, China has an immense advantage over the Soviet Union, and it gives Chinese reformers an immense advantage over their Soviet counterparts. There really is a Chinese people; 94% belong to one ethnic group, Han Chinese. By contrast, Russians make up only 51% of the population of the U.S.S.R.; they are one of more than 100 ethnic groups. Those non- Russian nationalities -- in the Caucasus, in Central Asia, along the Baltic, in the Ukraine -- are already straining at the ties that bind them to Moscow...
...killed in the Georgian capital in April, some reportedly with poison gas, during clashes with army troops. That request, which prompted the delegates to rise for a moment of silence, was not merely unrehearsed, it was an explicit act of defiance that went against Gorbachev's wish that no ethnic group be singled out for sympathy...
...Crimea. Even the man who stood up to nominate Gorbachev for President, author Chingiz Aitmatov, did so with a few cavils. Gorbachev, he said, had made "serious mistakes," notably a failure so far to turn around the country's faltering economy and to keep a lid on ugly ethnic rivalries...