Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summary, the majority of background factors showed no significant relationship with seeking psychiatric help, whether these factors were education, ethnic membership, region of the country, or intelligence and previous academic performance of the student...
...purpose of education is to educate, not to promote a synthetic integration by numerically balancing ethnic groups in the classroom...Mature, self-confident and mutually respectful relations between the racse are more a by-product of sound moral education than the automatic result of integrated schools; and the integration of neighborhoods--and of their schools--will inevitably follow upon the establishment of this mutual respect...
...months, Lt. Col. Tokubu Gowon, head of Nigeria's military government, has been struggling to prevent tribal antagonisms from ripping apart his West African nation. Until two weeks ago, his efforts seemed futile. The leaders of Nigeria's four ethnic regions seemed unable to agree on a place to meet, much less on a way to keep the tottering federal government on its feet. Then, suddenly, Gowon and the four regional heads dropped everything and took off for Accra, Ghana. After two whirlwind days of secret negotiations at one of Kwama Nkrumah's old villas, the five men, gushing optimism...
With Nigeria already so deeply divided it seems unlikely that an immediate restoration of strong federal rule would really achieve anything. The ethnic segregation of the country will take years to overcome--if it can be overcome at all--and until it is, any expression of political solidarity would be largely artificial. On the other hand, forcing the centralization of Nigeria could do a great deal of harm. With tribal hostilities still intense, political integration and the consequent tribal intermingling could spark a repetition of last October's devastating riots...
...recreates the city's Lower East Side from 1870 to 1924. The article begins with a series of cliches which create a suspicion that it is simply one more addition to the collection of general, and generally boring, essays on the search for "cultural identity." "We have no common ethnic, territorial or cultural past, as other nations have." Or, we are told, "Men need to recover their roots; not to sink into, but to grow out of." But Berman does not long remain at the level of banal declarations. He moves quickly through both his introductory remarks and the Jewish...