Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book is a master plan of how the G.O.P. can corral voters troubled by what he calls "the Negro problem." The Democrats, says Phillips, have shifted from the economic populist stand of the New Deal to "social engineering." As a result, writes Phillips, "in practically every state and region, ethnic and cultural animosities and divisions exceed all other factors in explaining party choice and identification...
...Government I have given my word that we will return this government to civilian rule, but I will not hand it over in chaos. I'll hand it over to a democratic government when I am sure that anyone can move about freely and that, irrespective of your ethnic origin, color or religion, you can express your opinion without being intimidated...
...long way off. The nation's Chinese minority (about 3,000,000 out of a total population of more than 112 million) is a problem. They control an estimated 75% of Indonesian commerce, which provokes resentment. Moreover many of the Communists and their sympathizers who backed Sukarno were ethnic Chinese. All this makes it more difficult for the present government to utilize fully the Chinese citizens' considerable economic talents...
...George addresses the camera in an arch epilogue. Yet The Fool Killer remains valid for two reasons. In its picaresque exploration of a naive, vanished America, it meanders into the Twain tradition of American fiction. And in its stinging exploration of God-haunted gothic territory, it demonstrates that no ethnic group has ever had an exclusive hold on guilt...
...physiological evidence of any differences in the pain sensors and therefore in the basic pain sensations in these two groups. Whatever differences there are apparently exist entirely in the emotional reactions. These also vary with cultural attitudes. The stoicism of the American Indian and the Chinese is proverbial, although ethnic variations in sensitivity have not been proved. Descendants of "old American" families make a greater effort to suppress their reactions to pain than other cultural groups, such as Italians, among whom an outcry is socially acceptable. For yet others, the "wailing wall" psychology provides a rationale: the vocal protest...