Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Assembly resolution, however, couples "racism" with "racial discrimination," which by the U.N.'s own canons includes ethnic discrimination as well. Israel's record is more vulnerable on that charge: Arab speakers in the U.N. debate ticked off a number of examples of discrimination against Arabs in the occupied territories, including restrictions on travel and harassment by police. Most galling to the Arabs is Israel's Law of Return, which grants instant citizenship to any Jew who immigrates to Israel from anywhere in the world, while Palestinian Arabs who fled their homeland during the 1948 war are still...
...that time, the Med School created 15 extra places in its incoming classes and raised the necessary funds--$80,000 to $90,000 per year--in order to have each class composed ot 20 per cent ethnic minority members...
...implication of CC '75 bias against the city's ethnic-oriented, working class neighborhoods is especially regrettable, since one of the principal motivations of the whole Convention effort was to begin to move away from the bitter, regressive class cleavages which have poisoned Cambridge politics for over a generation. The surprising victories of Sara Mae Berman and David Clem, two liberal candidates from neighborhoods east of Harvard Square, indicate a partial success here. The overwhelming broad-based neighborhood support for Frank Duehay and the courageous candidacy of Steve Buckley, a member of a longtime name appeared on none...
...Harvard, democracy has contracted a bad case of "distemper." So many demands are made of the all too vulnerable system that it is in danger of breaking down. Or, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, writes: "Even our sense of peoplehood grows uncertain as ethnic assertions take their implacable toll on the civic assumption of unity." Like monarchy in the 19th century, adds Moynihan, liberal democracy "is where the world was, not where it is going...
...certain sameness about them. Universal is responsible for 8% prime-time hours (out of 22) on NBC alone this year. Some of the good independents like Norman Lear and Mary Tyler Moore are also overextended -and overimitated. This gives viewers a narrow range of choices: cop and doc shows, ethnic sitcoms, nice-girl sitcoms. It has become harder to tell good from bad in this small spectrum. Still, the suspicion lingers that TV's real-if possibly temporary-trouble springs from precisely the opposite condition...