Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Parties such as this one celebrate the University's partisan pride, not a Harvard history checkered with religious, ethnic and sexual bigotry, parochialism and snobbery. The remberances are as facile as the celebration is slick...
...meeting in Ethiopia with Garang, who holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from Iowa State. Yet the two leaders could not concur on terms for a cease-fire. Last week Sadiq agreed to repeal the September laws within ten days. But how he would unify a country with 160 ethnic groups speaking 100 different languages still remained unclear...
...sputters when she recalls a sign at a local gas station, WILL THE LAST AMERICAN TO LEAVE MONTEREY PARK PLEASE BRING THE FLAG? For Chen, the placard is testimony to a conflict that threatens to split Monterey Park, a city of about 59,000 next to Los Angeles, along ethnic lines. During the past 25 years, the Asian population has grown from 5% to 40%, and the increasingly prosperous city has been tagged the Asian Beverly Hills. But changes have bred resentment. A cultural cross fire over language -- English vs. Chinese -- has erupted in Monterey Park, with one side seeking...
...ethnic activists and civil rights groups opposing Proposition 63 believe that arguments about the need for national unity are a thin veil for a nativist, xenophobic crusade. "We oppose it because it would breed intolerance, divisiveness and bigotry," says Jessica Fiske of the American Civil Liberties Union. Opponents fear that because of its loose wording, the measure could open the way for legislation that would endanger bilingual ballots, educational programs, emergency services and television programming, all of which aid immigrants, especially the elderly, to adjust to an English-speaking soci- ety. It could also, warns Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley...
...Anyone named James Oliver Buswell IV carries his parents' announcement of a certain view of the child's place in the world, but the effect of such a view probably differs considerably from one person to another. Someone with a name like Otto inevitably knows the burdens of an ethnic heritage, but so, presumably, do Madonna Ciccone and Fernando Valenzuela, and we all survive...