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...million Iraqis are eligible to vote on election day, according to Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission. A commission official predicts about half will actually cast a ballot. That kind of turnout would be acceptable, but analysts are worried that the new legislature won't adequately reflect Iraq's ethnic composition. The assembly will select a new Prime Minister and President but, more important, will also draw up a new constitution. If Sunnis don't vote in sufficient numbers--an official with a nongovernmental organization in Baghdad says that a Sunni turnout of "under 50% becomes a problem"--the drafting...
...outmoded anyway, whether the tsunami occurs or not. Religion has become divisive, quarrelsome and idiotic. Religion is the reason we have all this conflict in the world. We have squeezed God into the volume of a body and the span of a lifetime; given God a male identity, an ethnic background; made him a tribal chief and gone to war. Yet people are not ready to forsake their image...
...Louie said that while her respondents acknowledged a racial hierarchy and class inequality, they subscribed to the idea that their ethnic culture was more important for success than financial and educational resources...
...held up as an example to other groups, both immigrant- and native-born,” she said. Louie interviewed 68 second-generation Chinese Americans attending Hunter College and Columbia University and compared the experiences of students from suburban, middle-class America to those who grew up in ethnic enclaves like Chinatown or Flushing, New York...
Suburban families can afford to pay for good educational opportunities, while parents in enclaves have to depend on ethnic networks, she said...