Word: ethnicize
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...Karachi, a port city of 14 million on the Pakistani coast, where the Pab mountain range and the Sindh Desert gather into a brick-and dust-hued urban sprawl before tumbling into the Arabian Sea, is the battlefield in which an assassin like M.R. thrives. In Karachi you have ethnic feuds: gangs of Indian migrants versus the Pathans, Baluchis and Sindhis; you have extremists from rival Sunni and Shi'ite sects battling each other (lately, radical Sunnis are gunning down Shi'ite doctors and lawyers at random); and, of course, there are the radical Islamic groups that shelter al-Qaeda...
...process by exposing students, both in the classroom and through their informal interactions, to a broad range of experiences and viewpoints.” Certainly students who come to Harvard from more homogenous communities stand to gain greatly by experiencing firsthand the interactions between students from different racial and ethnic groups. From dorm rooms to classrooms, the interactions across racial lines fostered by the diverse student body are critical to an enriched educational and social experience, with meaningful relationships easily forming among Harvard students regardless of race. Annual shows such as Cultural Rhythms and Ghungroo provide showcases for various communities...
...apology by The Crimson after public protest. But while the piece was undermined by its language and wildly unsupported overgeneralizations, the underlying message of the article, that self-segregation hurts the ability of students to truly learn from each other and build meaningful friendships regardless of racial and ethnic background, was a valid point worth considering...
...social sciences for nurture: John B. Watson, who set out to show how the conditioned reflex, discovered by Ivan Pavlov, could explain human learning; Sigmund Freud, who sought to explain the influence of parents and early experiences on young minds; and Franz Boas, who argued that the origin of ethnic differences lay with history, experience and circumstance, not physiology and psychology...
...Aceh anymore. But then nobody really wants to know. Polls show the majority of Indonesians support the conflict-which the military has successfully portrayed as a noble battle for national unity rather than, as an Acehnese friend described to me from hiding, a ruthless campaign against a single ethnic group. The reaction overseas has been similarly muted. So far, protests from abroad have been pro forma or nonexistent or, in the case of Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer, who wholeheartedly threw his support behind the Aceh campaign only days after the Peusangan massacre, bordering on cold hearted...