Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yugoslavia's population of 20.5 million is a combustible mixture of 8.6 million Serbs, 4.7 million Croats, 1.8 million Slovenes, 1.1 million Macedonians and 560,000 Montenegrins, plus some 3,000,000 Albanians, Hungarians, Turks and people of other ethnic groups...
...example, hunter-gatherers, those primitive peoples who live by hunting animals and gathering wild plant foods, "are the least territorial of all human groups." Furthermore, in Africa "there are innumerable situations in which peoples of different ethnic backgrounds live together in the same territory, often exploiting the environment in different ways." In fact, says Alland, territoriality is not inborn but is actually determined by the culture; he notes that most nations need such external reinforcers as the pledge to the flag and draft laws to ensure that national territory will have sufficient defenders...
...cent in the Massachusetts primary, twenty-one per cent in Pennsylvania on the basis of only a couple of hours campaigning in each place. I see the South taken for granted as Wallace moves into the South of the North--wooing the hardhat, the migrated hill-billy, the ethnic angry at busing. Under Webster's picture at Fanueil Hall, Wallace takes aim at his favorite targets: the apparently bottomless pit of taxing and spending, taxing and spending; the phony slickness of television, "kowtowing to the exotic and the noisemakers;" the liberals who have gotten...
...American dream. What are the prevailing values, hopes and desires? Do they ennoble or corrupt the people who hold them? What has been the psychic cost of Viet Nam? Do Americans believe in the brotherhood of man, or do the words merely camouflage a stubborn residue of racial and ethnic bigotry...
...American politics, Novak's plea for ethnic power can sound like the oldest American politics; one hears the rhetoric of a new Tammany promising the Slovak grandmother prune dumplings in the sky. In his general plea for decentralization - down with the bu reaucrats, up with neighborhood government - Novak seems on sounder ground, though he fails to prove that ethnic self-consciousness is the key. What validates the book is Novak's very recklessness - his willingness to sweep beyond defendable limits. This is the price he knowingly pays for a modest act of hope at a time when most...