Word: ethnics
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This resulted in a much more variegated adaptation profile for black students in the earlier period than over the past decade. Furthermore, this multi-faceted and transcultural (that is, trans-ethnic) adaptation pattern of black students at elite colleges during the years 1920-1960s produced a quality of upper middle-class professionals, businessmen, scientists and technicians that has never been surpassed...
Above all else, black students in the pre--1960s era grasped the fundamental significance of broad-gauged interaction and success-oriented relationships available at top-rank colleges such as Harvard. They also recognized something that other upwardly mobile students from stigmatized white ethnic groups such as Jews and Catholics grasped equally well--that elite colleges play a disproportionately large role in training those Jews, Catholics, and blacks who compete for leading national or cosmopolitan positions in business, science, scholarship, politics, law and medicine...
...happened with almost every ethnic group in America, the Hispanics are learning that growing numbers and assertiveness often produce growing hostility. As far back as 1943, hundreds were injured in a Los Angeles race riot, an event dramatized in the current West Coast hit play, Zoot Suit, by Luis Valdez. But now the antipathy is becoming more intense and pervasive as the Hispanics become not only more visible but also more insistent on their rights...
...real story of American colonization and expansion has begun to make its way into school curricula. But somehow we never managed to dump Columbus Day. Maybe Columbus Day has become more an ethnic holiday than anything else, the Italian-Americans' St. Patrick's Day; but a more appropriate date for "Italian-American Day" can (and should) be found, one that commemorates one of the many truly constructive Italian-American contribuitons to the United States. Many people feel that the massacre of the Native Americans is just an ugly blot in our past, and that the current state of "the greatest...
...potential Achilles heel is the ethnic minorities question--three-quarters million Hungarians and one half million Germans, living mainly in Transylvania. Their direct contacts with Hungary and East Germany are severly restricted by the regime: for although these countries may be Communist also, their nationalist affinity with their Transylvanian kin is too close and potentially separatist for comfort. It is highly significant that the most serious recent opposition to Ceaucescu was the Transylvanian miners' strike, where most of the leaders arrested were Hungarian speaking...