Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christianity in Turkey may indeed be at its darkest hour, but the whole of Eastern Orthodoxy, with all of its diverse ethnic membership, will live on as it has for the past 1,900 years...
Audiences? Nationwide, annual attendance at all dance events (ballet, modern jazz, ethnic) now stands at about 15 million, a threefold increase in just five years. Ballet schools? There are thousands of them, from small outfits run by a single proprietor-instructor to big operations affiliated with the major professional companies. The highly-rated A.B.T. school, where the parents of an aspiring dancer may pay $700 a year for nine hours of classes a week, now has 1,000 students, an increase of 25% in five years. But that is no big deal: the schools run by the San Francisco Ballet...
...There is a distinction between the ideal of ethnicity and the reality. When you have things like Philadelphia's Rizzo announcing himself as a national leader of white ethnics, ethnic chauvinism is no longer a harmless political fringe, but a dangerous national ideology," Patterson said...
...Ethnicity is a cover for reactionary and segregationist policies, Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, said last night in a discussion with Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government, on ethnic chauvinism...
Walzer defended the concept of ethnicity, and said ethnicity gives individuals a secure identity. He added that Patterson had created a false dichotomy of universal values versus particular ethnic values in his book "Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse." "Our universality is always embodied in the particular, Walzer said...