Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ethnic tensions flare...
...ugly outbreak of anti-Semitism in the U.S. or Western Europe? Not at all. It was part of an unusually severe flare-up of ethnic tension in Israel between Sephardic Jews, who came from North Africa and other parts of the Arab and Oriental world, and Ashkenazi Jews, whose roots are in Europe. Though the Sephardic community now forms a majority in Israel, according to most authorities, and was largely responsible for bringing Prime Minister Menachem Begin to power, the more affluent Ashkenazim have long dominated the country's institutions...
Overnight, ethnic agitation broke out in Tel Aviv. Demonstrators called Mayor Shlomo Lahat a murderer and threatened revenge. Swastikas appeared on the Jerusalem residence of Yosef Burg, the German-born Interior Minister who has authority over the police...
...recognizes it as the only legitimate representatives of the Namibian people. More importantly, SWAPO enjoys wide support in Namibia, and most experts agree that it would win if an internationally supervised plebiscite were to be held. The organization is multi-racial, and its membership encompasses all of Namibia's ethnic groups. These people are obviously not wanton terrorists and are as legitimate as the French resistance during World War II, the Afghan freedom fighters, or Solidarity...
...Harvard, where the Jews were sequestered together very much outside the Harvard establishment. Although Mailer wants to be the quintessential American, he has remained interested in his Brooklyn Jewish past, writing occasionally for Commentary magazine. Without attempting to reconcile this tension, Mills shows Mailer's underlying sensitivity to ethnic roots through events in both his private life and in his writing. For example, she observes that Mailer intermingles his speech with Southern drawls and Irish brogues, concealing his roots...