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...appealing, you can bet that the more extreme viewpoints he dishes up to white Republicans get omitted from the soothing “heritage” speeches he gives at Indian-American fundraising dinners. Jindal has been very successful indeed at working his innate advantage and tapping the latent ethnic pride (some would call it racism) felt by other people of his color...
With 22 states holding their primaries and caucuses on February 5's "Tsunami Tuesday," the presidential candidates now find themselves not only campaigning across the country, but also trying to win the support of the different ethnic communities that can deliver a bloc of votes...
...surprised to see Mitt Romney or Barack Obama don a yarmulke in Brooklyn or Hillary Clinton or John McCain down a tamale in Los Angeles. But the most direct way that politicians try to curry favor with their ethnic audience is to try to speak like them. Nothing forges as much of a connection - or presents as great a risk - as trying to address an audience in their native tongue...
Walking the paths of this slum north of Nairobi, John Kimani points to all the homes that now stand unoccupied, the trash on their floors and the doors swinging wide telling the tale of a hasty exit. Almost all the ethnic Luos in Witeithie have fled in the week since local Kikuyus warned them to leave by January 31. "Failure to do That will Suffer the Consequences," warned fliers scattered in front of Luo homes. Few waited around to learn what those consequences might...
Indeed, the fear was that the violence would begin to spiral out of control into a cycle of ethnic attacks as members of Kenya's different ethnic groups act on grievances they have harbored for decades over land and the perceived inequitable distribution of resources. That, in turn, could sink Kenya's economy, whose chief engines are horticulture, tourism and tea. All three industries have been crippled...