• Nonetheless, this is still not an ethnic group that has ever asserted itself until now.

    ECONOMIST: Gypsies in America

  • The other camp favours the index of segregation, which measures how the members of an ethnic group are distributed.

    ECONOMIST: Segregation

  • They are an ethnic group, mostly made up of Shiite Muslims, who migrated from Afghanistan more than century ago.

    NPR: Pakistani Shiites Mourn As Bomb Death Toll Hits 45

  • Most of the dead and wounded were Hazaras, an ethnic group that migrated from Afghanistan over a century ago.

    NPR: Shiites Lash Out After Pakistan Bombing Kills 81

  • This could easily apply to a national group, an ethnic group, a nationality, but it all depends on how whoever defines it to mean.

    NPR: Words Matter: Terms of Global Conflict Debated

  • Americans in general still have trouble thinking of a gypsy as a member of an ethnic group, rather than a stock character in a film set in Transylvania.

    ECONOMIST: Gypsies in America

  • The vast majority of people there are Kurds, an ethnic group distinct from the Arabs, who, though they have no love for the Turks, would much prefer them to the sadistic Saddam, who slaughtered and gassed them by the thousands.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Still, you figure that he's pushing his luck if he expects to do for an insular ethnic group what he did for history's most profitable fish.

    FORBES: The wealth of a nation

  • Uzbeks form an important ethnic group in Afghanistan.

    ECONOMIST: Central Asia

  • Meanwhile an ethnic-Albanian group trying to seize power in part of southern Serbia said it had lost three men in a gun-battle.

    ECONOMIST: Kosovo

  • " She defended the application of the UCLA rule against the cartoon on the ground that affirmative action applies only to minorities and women, while she excused the Nommo article because "white people are not an ethnic or cultural group.

    WSJ: Best of the Web Today: See You in the Funny Papers

  • Because what you do is you force people overall to pay an enormous cost across an entire racial or ethnic group for the actions of a very few people.

    NPR: The Difficulties Of Proving Racial Profiling

  • And just in case peace-makers might be in any doubt of the serious nature of the rebels' threat to the country's stability, Mr Boskovski's special police units shot dead five members of an ethnic-Albanian rebel group discovered hiding in Skopje.

    ECONOMIST: Macedonia

  • Blacks were the only race or ethnic group to show an increase in voter turnout in November, most notably in the Midwest and Southeastern U.S., the Census Bureau said Wednesday.

    NPR: A Census First: Black Voter Turnout Passes Whites

  • Tens of thousands of people are thought to have been killed though the slaughter is not technically considered a genocide, since it has not been an effort to kill a whole ethnic group.

    ECONOMIST: Judging genocide

  • That moment was likely the first time the target of his off-the-cuff comments were aimed at a popular group, instead of an ethnic minority.

    NPR: Bush Tries to Bolster Burns Campaign in Montana

  • One camp uses an index of isolation, which measures the likelihood that two inhabitants of an area will belong to the same ethnic group, to prove the existence of ghettos in Bradford, Leicester and Oldham.

    ECONOMIST: Segregation

  • Some think the bombs have been planted by a loosely organised alliance made up of a group of Hmong, an ethnic minority in the north, some of whom have been fighting the Communists since 1975, and southern rebels seeking to restore the Laotian monarchy.

    ECONOMIST: Laos and the mysterious bombs

  • Sir Peter said: "We need a wider interpretation of the definition of 'occupational requirement', " adding that currently, if chief constables wanted to recruit officers who had an understanding of a particular national or ethnic group, they had to "dance on a legal pinhead" to do so.

    BBC: Police chief Dal Babu criticises ethnic recruitment

  • Nearly six million inhabitants have an Italian background, making it the largest ethnic group in the city, and more than half a million are Japanese.

    BBC: Living in: S?o Paulo

  • As carriers of Li culture, traditional Li textile techniques are an indispensable part of the cultural heritage of the Li ethnic group.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • As the product of accumulated labour and wisdom, the farmers dance remains an important expression of the cultural heritage of China s Korean ethnic group.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • These workshops enabled an initial group of women from different religions, cultures and ethnic backgrounds to be trained as mediators in conflicts and in the education of children traumatized by war or affected by pandemics.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Latinos progress more quickly to AIDS after an HIV diagnosis than any other U.S. racial or ethnic group.

    WHITEHOUSE: Using National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) to Redouble Our Efforts to Respond to the HIV Prevention and Care Needs of Latinos | The White House

  • In an effort to fill the ethnic food void in New Orleans, a group of local entrepreneurs founded Dinner Lab, a new dining experience that emphasizes on creating once in a lifetime dinner parties with up-and-coming chefs from around the city.

    FORBES: A Food Evolution in New Orleans Sets Trends for Entrepreneurs in the Industry

  • And I have eaten a delicate turtle soup while watching dancers from the Dai ethnic group, of subtropical Yunnan province, flutter mothlike to an ancient melody wafting forth from a battered cassette player.

    BBC: A Beijing state of mind

  • The paradox of Dr Mahathir's career is that his determination to favour Malaysia's ethnic-Malay majority is matched by what seems to be an extraordinarily condescending attitude to that group.

    ECONOMIST: Mahathir Mohamad

  • And starting this argument by saying that as a unique or separate ethnic group, they have all the rights of self-determination, that means to create an independent state of their own.

    NPR: Debating the Fate of Iraq's New Constitution

  • The group, regarded by the US and EU as a terrorist organisation, launched an armed campaign for an ethnic Kurdish homeland in south-east Turkey in 1984.

    BBC: Turkey air strikes as Kurd activists' bodies are returned

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