Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Liberal moralists do say that his show promotes the objectification of women, the oppression of ethnic minorities and the celebration of mass culture. Conservative moralists do say that his show debases culture and promotes bad behavior...
...that people do not separate religion and politics is that people do not know the difference between an Arab and a Muslim. Indeed, in a conversation with me Wednesday night, Oppenheim asked me the difference between the Society of Arab Students and the Harvard Islamic Society. Arab is an ethnicity, Islam a religion. Members of Islam come from many different ethnic and national groups such as African, Indonesian, American, Indian etc. The Arab world only constitutes 18-20 percent of the world's Muslims...
DIED. JULIUS NYERERE, 77, statesman and Tanzania's first President; of leukemia; in London. Nyerere led his country to independence from British rule in 1961, united 120 ethnic groups into one country, and was its leader for 23 years. He continued until his death to try to unite Africa--most recently by mediating in a civil war in Burundi...
...Krebs warns against the easy assignment of dealing with ethnic issues to groups like AAA and CAST. "If I'm a director picking a show, I have a responsibility to be flexible or make theater a venue to discuss important issues...
...Indian-born Canadian director, has yet again challenged India's political conservatives. Unlike Fire, which directly criticizes India's societal hypocrisy, Earth shifts a fair amount of the blame onto the ignorance of the paternalistic British imperialists, who ended up causing one of the 20th century's bloodiest ethnic wars in their attempt to control the fate of the Indian people and their government. Before the partition takes place, Lenny, despite being forced by polio to wear a leg brace, enjoys a happy childhood playing under the care of her nanny Shanta (Nandita Das). Shanta is a beautiful young Hindu...