Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, it is the former view that dominates the press. Instant international theoreticians of ethnic profiles see in the Ibo a harmonious fusion of the judaic and christian traditions. If indeed this were a relevent category for the discussion of the Nigerian civil war, it would truly represent a tremendous cultural achievement for an African society, in view of the bloody antagonisms which have characterized these two traditions for much of Western history. Unfortunately, the category is irrelevent. Concocted as it was out of political expediency, this image now makes it difficult for the foreign observer to retrieve the objective...
...Governor is just not sophisticated enough to realize that (1) he's not savvy enough to be vice-president, (2) that the importance of ethnic factors has declined, and (3) that he's been rejected by the Nixon people and should bow out now instead of continuing to make a fool of himself," he added...
...practice in full-facility hospitals that require membership in A.M.A.-affiliated county medical societies. Last week the A.M.A. finally faced up to the problem by calling for changes in the association bylaws that would subject any affiliate that denies membership on the grounds of "color, creed, race, religion or ethnic origin," to dismissal...
...popular support is problematic. Many of his partisans, stunned and embittered, have already forsworn further interest in the outcome of the election-an attitude that would hurt the Democratic candidate in November. Yet thousands of former R.F.K. backers in organized labor and among Negroes, Mexican-Americans and urban ethnic groups will undoubtedly gravitate to Humphrey. Students, intellectuals and antiwar Democrats who favored Kennedy will probably wind up with McCarthy...
...choices. After several days of such shuffling, a new council is finally elected. Few Cambridge residents outside of political circles understand the mechanics of the system; all the politicians know its implication--the way to get elected is to seize and hold a band of "number ones," usually through ethnic and neighborhood background...