Word: non-european
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...place to be taken by Hong Kong. Already more than 600,000 people of Asian background -- 3.5% of the population -- have made Australia their home, and the number is likely to double by the year 2010. This migration has not led to the racist violence that has greeted non-European migrants to France, Germany and other countries. It is a promising measure of the society that it has remained mostly calm in the face of such a transformation; that ability to absorb change will seem increasingly valuable in the future...
...taught not as disciplines but as therapies whose function is to raise minority self-esteem. Group separatism crystallizes the differences, magnifies tensions, intensifies hostilities. Europe -- the unique source of the liberating ideas of democracy, civil liberties and human rights -- is portrayed as the root of all evil, and non-European cultures, their own many crimes deleted, are presented as the means of redemption...
Black Americans do not have a monopoly on the oppressed minority bandwagon. Native Americans, women, non-European immigrants and gay and lesbian people as well as Blacks have suffered because they were seen as different and somehow inferior to the paradigmatic "white...
Calling for a more flexible curriculum within the department and more classes in the art of non-European cultures, several fine arts concentrators will present a petition to department faculty at a student-faculty meeting this afternoon, students said yesterday...
...R.C.M.P. wants to increase its minority recruits. Less than 1% are members of such non-European groups as Asians and blacks, who constitute 6.3% of the population. The Justice Department has concluded that the hat requirement discourages Sikhs from joining the force and would probably fail a court challenge. But Alberta housewife Dot Miles, 62, a self-described "caring Canadian," and her two sisters gathered 150,000 signatures on petitions to retain the dress code, and sympathetic legislators presented the results to Parliament...