Word: ethnicize
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...Olympian perspective, their authors tend to use broad strokes to portray things that actually require a fine-grained touch. For example, most treat China's population as an undifferentiated mass, or one that can be bisected along just one axis: be it the 90% Han and 10% non-Han ethnic divide, the clear ideological fault line between loyalists and dissidents, and so on. And they often buy into the cozy but distorting official myth of "thousands of years of continuous civilization," which suggests that China's borders have remained fairly constant over time and that the "Confucian tradition" has been...
...long, the United States has been yielding to the Chinese government with regards to the issue of ethnic minorities and human rights. Last year, Hillary Clinton even stated that addressing Chinese human rights couldn’t take precedent over other crises. This is simply not an acceptable diplomatic message to send, especially from a nation that prides itself on protecting freedom. Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama is not just a formality; it sends a strong signal that human rights issues will be addressed, even if China demands otherwise...
...depict the ruler as a pious and pure soul offering prayers in the temples, thus not allowing the average voter to think past the Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism. These are the exact types of policies that nurtured hate and communal disharmony in every Sri Lankan election leading to several ethnic riots unleashed on Tamils...
...range in age from 21 to 28, boast artificial tans, breasts, and hair; the men are alarmingly muscled and the women are alarmingly under-clothed. They proudly self-identify as “guidos” and “guidettes”—terms considered ethnic slurs by outraged Italian anti-defamation groups...
Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Jeffrey M. Young proposed during yesterday’s school committee meeting the establishment of a middle school in the city’s K-8 school system to close the achievement gap among different socioeconomic and ethnic groups...