Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...armbands were one of the only signs that ethnic studies activism, a hot topic several years ago, is experiencing a rebirth on the Harvard campus...
Most Harvard students didn't notice the fluorescent green armbands worn by members of the Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC) at the Cultural Rhythms performance in February...
Others--and I am not among them--dismiss what they call the "black armband" reading of history, seeming to regard Aborigines as just another ethnic community. They also express concern for the future of the pastoral and mining industries which they see as threatened by Mabo...
...Hutu mainly raised crops, but the division was arbitrary. "The Hutu and Tutsi are one people, with one language, who eat the same food and dress the same way," Bizimana says. "We follow the same occupations, worship together and intermarry. The real source of Rwanda's divisions is not ethnic but political and economic...
...political and economic" groups. "You cannot call them tribes," he says. Yet even if tribalism is an inadequate term, it does speak to an emerging and explosive phenomenon in other parts of the world. Fragmentation, Balkanization, the dissolution of states: at a time of blurry borders and contested nationhood, ethnicity may become the most common--and easiest--organizing principle for nation builders. In the next century, conflagrations of apparent tribalism will not be set off by old ethnic rivalries as much as by contemporary political struggles--struggles that power-hungry leaders will use to inflame tensions among groups. Says Bizimana...