Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of minority appointee, is particularly distressing when one considers the fact that the major task of the ACSR has been to make recommendations of South Africa investment policy and that racial and ethnic minority groups, and Blacks in particular, feel that they have a greater interest and stake in the South Africa issue than do most whites...
This recognition of the cosmopolitan imperative in American life is both correct and in line with the comparable recognition of the cosmopolitan imperative by Jewish, Irish, Italian, Asian, and other ethnic students at Harvard. The cosmopolitan imperative, moreover, does not preclude intra-ethnic relationships and networks, as Timothy Wilkins, head of Harvard Black Students Association, intimated in his comment that Black students "see that Harvard is the only Ivy League school without a Third World Center and they think that the University wants all Black students to assimilate." The cosmopolitan imperative demands only that the parochial impulses and proclivities that...
...Harvard's Jewish students. But Black students must recognize that such preference for parochial moorings are not rights--requiring inputs by the wider college community for their enjoyment. Thus Mormon and Jewish students wishing to enjoy parochial moorings while trekking Harvard's cosmopolitan turf turn to their respective ethnic communities for the funds and resources to sustain this preference...
...generate resources to sustain their parochial preferences. If such Black students entertain any serious intention of aiding resolution of the crisis of social pathologies facing some one-third of Black Americans who are in or near poverty, they have to rid themselves of an immature and phony perspective toward ethnic leadership. Blacks with wealth and institutional resources will have to put some of these on the line (not just ethnocentric theatric)in order to upgrade the Black poor, or stop all the fast and easy talk about being Black leaders And Blacks with cosmopolitan lifestyles, with linkages to inter-ethnic...
...Turkey. In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus with NATO arms, and since then it has occupied 37% of the island. Neither Turkey nor Greece has any business being in Cyprus. Cyprus is not Greek territory, but there are ethnic bonds of language, culture and history between Greece and Cyprus. What has NATO done to curb Turkish aggression...