Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only one of many fundamental changes at the College during the past few years. Students in the 1980s have leapt into the preprofessional melee with a vigor that would shock many students of the 1960s and 1970s. Students of the 1920s would be suprised at the geographic and ethnic diversity of each incoming class. In fact, diversity has become the major sales pitch of the admissions staff...
...nation of immigrants, people of diverse ethnic backgrounds must have a common bond through which to exchange ideas. How can this be accomplished if there is no common language? Those who shelter the immigrant from learning English by creating a multilingual society are the ones who are creating a xenophobic atmosphere. They allow the immigrant to surround himself with a cocoon of language from which he cannot escape and which others cannot penetrate...
...drill team in Moldavian mufti, all spit and polish in braids and boots, the company has raised folk dancing to a highly regimented, breathtakingly athletic art form. Drawing inspiration from the more than 100 different ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, but predominantly Russian in personnel and outlook, the company remains the personal expression of its founder, Choreographer Igor Moiseyev...
Darjeeling, an Indian district in the Himalayan foothills, is home to some of the world's best tea. It is also home to 600,000 Gurkhas, an ethnic group that has feelings of second-class citizenship. They have mobilized under the % leadership of the Gurkha National Liberation Front to seek an autonomous state within India...
Other symposia scrutinized the university's attitude toward realities, racial and ethnic minorities; evaluated that much-maligned measure of intelligence, the IQ; and considered the likely fallout of the computer explosion...