Word: ethnicities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What they are really saying is that I have violated a certain etiquette in literary circles that says you shouldn't be altogether frank about these matters of ethnic and racial hostility. But if you raise the issue, a certain formula is to be followed: you must introduce a character, preferably from the streets, who is enlightened and shows everyone the error of his ways, so that by the time the story is over, everyone's heading off wiser. There has to be a moral resolution. Unfortunately, life isn't like that. I felt that if you are going...
...percentage point, taking 11.8% of the vote and 17 seats. The returns seemed to reflect less a sudden shift in the electorate's ideological complexion than a general dissatisfaction with the larger parties. Chronic housing shortages, spiraling rents, tightened health and pension programs and a continuing influx of ethnic Germans and asylum-seeking refugees all conspired to deal the Christian Democrats what Diepgen called a "devastating reversal...
Irene Shih, director of the event which included several other ethnic groups and over one thousand students, called Hillel's omission "regrettable" and attributed it to a "lack of communication...
...central themes of Visions '89 was that each individual ethnic group does not have to have the exact same immediate interests to have the same overall interest. As keynote speaker Samuel Betances said, "Let's stop playing the game of my people have more scars than your people. There's no model minority. We're all in this together...
...college campuses, minority interests suffered and were in large part ignored. Many colleges, Harvard included, seemed resistant to demands for courses in ethnic studies and for hiring of minority hiring. Many colleges, Havard included, continued to refuse to divest from South Africa...