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Most observers attribute the Liberals' triumph to a decline of separatist sentiment among Quebec's 4.6 million voters, some 80% of whom speak French. Over the past decade, laws requiring special treatment for the French-speaking majority have caused more than 100,000 English speakers, many of them leaders in finance and business, to leave the province. The subsequent economic drain has worsened unemployment, now nearly 12%. At the same time, many French speakers feel confident that their language and culture are now adequately protected. The result: few wish to risk any longer the economic costs of separatist politics...
Farrakhan has made some friends too. In Los Angeles, Thomas Metzger, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who heads a racist group called the White American Political Association, attended Farrakhan's speech and kicked in a $100 donation. Metzger, a self-described white separatist, likes some of Farrakhan's ideas, but says, "I don't see myself moving any closer to him since that would defy logic...
Some see bilingual education as potentially worse than that. Former California Senator S.I. Hayakawa believes the result of language maintenance could be to foster divisiveness like that of the French-speaking separatist movement in Canada that peaked in the 1970s. As an intended antidote, he introduced and still lobbies for a constitutional amendment that would make English the official U.S. language for government affairs...
...minority student groups inherently ethnocentric and separatist? Or do they provide a cultural haven that supplements other student activities...
...Lanka seemed gripped by madness last week as a series of violent attacks resulted in the slaughter of more than 200 people. The killings began when separatist guerrillas belonging to the country's predominantly Hindu Tamil minority hijacked a bus and headed for Anuradhapura, a city largely inhabited by Buddhist Sinhalese. As the guerrillas drove into the city's crowded main bus station, they opened fire with automatic weapons, killing about 100 men, women and children. Then they drove to the Sri Maha Bodhiya, a sacred Buddhist site, and fired indiscriminately into a crowd that included nuns and monks...