Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theory, the technique sounds like a natural for candidates seeking office in the electronic age. Rent a computer. Cram it with the names, telephone numbers and demographic particulars of a million or so voters. Feed in recorded messages by the candidate, slanting each pitch to appeal to a different ethnic or social group. Plug in a bank of telephones. Push a few buttons. And bleep, whir, dingaling, the machines tirelessly canvass the constituency with "personalized" calls (TIME...
...Jews insist, with stubborn existentialism, that a Jew is what he chooses to be. Yet the ends of the spectrum seem discernible enough?and some of the many shades in between. At one end, a very large group stresses the people-hood of Judaism, membership in a cultural and ethnic community that...
...ETHNIC OR EXISTENTIAL JUDAISM...
...Jews, and indeed to many Jews, the ethnic and religious variations among the world's 14 million Jews are bewildering. Scientifically speaking, there is no Jewish "race." As Scholar Raphael Patai points out in his book, Tents of Jacob, Jews of one geographical area share physiological traits with their immediate non-Jewish neighbors but much less so with Jews of a distant geographical area. Still, the Jews' long history of wandering as tightly knit communities has dispersed them into a wide range of distinct ethnic groups...
WHILE you were probably away, the Ethnic Catering Service made a two-day pit stop at Harvard as it slouches towards Miami to be bought...