And because Deaf culture is pervasive, those who embrace it often find a rich quasi-ethnic identity.
But there is another global shift that has less to do with ethnic identity or social philosophy.
It is also the case for people who are victimized solely on the basis of their ethnic identity.
Having spent most of her childhood growing up in Italy, she felt pressured to better understand her ethnic identity.
The process failed over whether Nepal should be divided into federal states that would also have an ethnic identity.
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Insecure about my ethnic identity, in part because I attended a predominantly white university, I lashed out at fellow Hispanic students.
"We were asked about our ethnic identity, which political party we support and even what newspaper we read, " said one student.
Some people grow dreadlocks as part of their ethnic identity, cultural or religious beliefs such as Kenya's Maasai warriors who are instantly recognisable by their red-tinted locks.
For others, it is a classic second-generation phenomenon, in which ethnic identity is more marked in the children of immigrants than among their parents who first stepped off the boat.
Instead, the results demonstrate a growing maturity among voters, especially in urban areas and among young first-time voters who regardless of ethnic identity flocked to the Internet to voice their demands for change.
"To drop the Sri Lankan players on this ground is to blatantly discriminate on the basis of nationality and ethnic identity, " The Hindu newspaper said in an editorial headlined "Chauvinism at its worst".
But the backlash is more intense in Greece, where the Orthodox clerics portray themselves as guardians of both the nation's ethnic identity and the heartland of the world's more than 200 million Orthodox faithful.
The problem is that the sense of meaningful ethnic identity is evaporating, along with the passion that used to fuel Irish-American pilgrimages to the homeland, and so North American visits to Ireland are falling, falling.
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All are traditional Democratic issues, but in concentrating on them Latinos are following the pattern of earlier immigrants: they are adopting middle-class American patterns of political behaviour, rather than putting their ethnic identity above everything else.
Active and enthusiastic engagement in this project by Yukagir of all ages means that the work of safeguarding their culture will continue through formal and informal education, preserving diversity and fostering pride in the Yukagir ethnic identity.
Emotions and frustrations are running high, and as we grapple to make sense of the tragedy, it is critical for all Americans to refrain from scapegoating any group of people or targeting innocent Americans based on their racial, religious and ethnic identity.
Today's dominant strain of American leftist thought is multiculturalist, not nationalist, which means leftist identity politics is mostly a matter of trying to forge alliances among disparate and potentially antipathetic ethnic and other identity groups.
Human Rights Education (HRE) is required to cultivate respect for all people regardless of colour, gender, descent or national, ethnic or religious identity.
Launched in January 2012, the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All aims to promote educational responses to counter discrimination and violence through strengthening the foundations of mutual tolerance, and cultivating respect for all people, regardless of colour, gender or national, ethnic or religious identity.
Mr Gilbert said residents could describe themselves as Cornish on sections of the form including country of birth, ethnic group and national identity.
Most Mexican-Americans I know would need a whole team of therapists to sort out their views on culture, national identity, ethnic pride and their relationship with Mother Mexico.
Some carried union flags and banners reading 'stop the ethnic cleansing of our British identity'.
The former accused the Times of race baiting, while the latter worried that efforts to acknowledge the reality of racial and ethnic mixing could undermine the class identity politics that lie at the root of leftist activism.
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When fascist or socialist movements have managed to gain a foothold, it has been by appeal to a pre-existing organic source of identity, whether national, ethnic or religious.
Before the web, the metaphor of the melting pot where individual ethnic identities broke down and recombined into a new national identity made some sense.
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This mixed bag of identities national, ethnic, pan-European, Atlanticist, multilingual leaves room for a resurgent Nordic identity as well.
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