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Dilemma. If many Sephardic Jews regard themselves as second-class Israelis, it follows that the nation's 400,000 Arab citizens, though largely impassive, have reason to feel the same way. Although constantly subject to the subversive propaganda of Palestinian liberationists, they have remained, as a group, remarkably loyal to Israel. The Arabs even have a better voting record than their Jewish countrymen (85% to 82%) and occasionally volunteer for military service (though they are never drafted). Their per capita income has quintupled since 1948 (to about $1,000), and their literacy rate has jumped from...
...Americanization commenced. In 1924, the Indians obtained citizenship and suffrage rights, and in 1934, the Indian Reorganization Act provided the red man with the mechanism for setting up miniature American democracies. By 1950, the United States had turned the Indian into an American, but still treated Indian people like second-class citizens...
...enough. They want the same kind of freedom from government interference enjoyed by their European counterparts. Thus, students at Athens' elite Polytechnic Institute boycotted classes last month after the government announced that it planned to upgrade the status of the so-called "sub-engineers." These, in effect, are second-class students who follow a simpler curriculum than do regular engineers and are subject to certain professional limitations after they graduate. (For example, they can build a house no taller than two stories...
...Jewish community"-an argument that provokes an outraged response from Ecumenist Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum in the same magazine. The U.S. has already had just such an intensely Christian environment, Tanenbaum points out, in the days when evangelical Christianity and American nationalism were considered synonymous. In that situation "Jews were second-class citizens, denied the right to vote and hold public office...
...preserve jobs for local workers when the Nizam of Hyderabad was importing help from other parts of India to staff his princely concerns, give preference in government jobs to the citizens of the capital city of Hyderabad and the surrounding districts of Telangana. Said one Andhras villager: "We are second-class citizens in our own capital city...