Perhaps more than anything, it reminds us that different ethnic groups take varying paths to successful integration.
However, three different ethnic groups (Mboko, Bakota and Mongombo) live contiguous to the area.
Whether it will be possible in practice to distinguish reliably between different ethnic groups is another question.
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It is the most emblematic of the old landscapes of Mesoamerica and is host to eight different ethnic groups.
Which is why Katherine Ye Zi, an English-language teacher, selected the class of Internet trailblazers from the different ethnic groups.
The government has undertaken a number of ceasefires with different ethnic groups.
QUIST-ARCTON: Kenya's 36 million people are made up of more than 40 different ethnic groups, the largest of which is the Kikuyu.
And we'll always be an experiment in that way - freedom and assimilation of different ethnic groups all living together in different cultures.
In Gansu and Qinghai Provinces and throughout north-central China, people of nine different ethnic groups share a music tradition known as Hua er.
Of 16.3 million households comprising at least two people in 2011, two million homes (12%) had members from different ethnic groups in 2011, up from 1.4 million in 2001 (9% of 15.2 million households).
They would also be expected to have heard stories about "famous Americans of different ethnic groups, faiths, and historical periods", with a suggested list including Neil Armstrong, Cesar Chavez, the Wright Brothers, Colin Powell and Bill Gates.
We encourage the integration of the different ethnic groups to increase the common ground among them but we also respect each community's wish to keep its own space where it can practise its own religion and customs.
The Supreme Court is due to rule soon on whether it is constitutional to establish quotas at Brazil's universities for different ethnic groups, in a decision that pits the melting-pot view of Brazilian history against the quilombola view.
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Ms Cheong, meanwhile, has issued a public apology, saying that the noise from the wedding - in a common space known as a void deck underneath government-built housing often used for celebrations by different ethnic groups - had caused her to lash out.
The conflict pitted different Congolese ethnic groups -- funded and armed by many of the country's neighbors -- against each other.
Although the researchers controlled for marital status, education, income, and age, other unidentified factors may have skewed the survey data on different genders and ethnic groups, Bahr says.
In the process, the leaders in these councils, who hail from Syria's different religious and ethnic groups, are developing political skills, cultivating local constituencies and learning through trial and error the business of governing.
Many observers fear that Syria, a mosaic of different religious sects and ethnic groups, could devolve into a religious conflict.
Researchers have used it when studying how to create closeness between individuals of different ethnic backgrounds and between groups that often distrust each other (for example, police officers and residents of low-income neighborhoods).
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Abdoulaye Bathily, a Senegalese mediator sent to the island by the Organisation of African Unity, admits he has achieved nothing and worries that the upheaval will provoke trouble between different highland and coastal ethnic groups.
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Fuad Hussein, an Iraqi who has returned from abroad and is now in charge of revising the curriculum, says he plans to set up a committee made up of Iraqis from different religious, political and ethnic groups to debate and rewrite Iraq's history.
It also hopes to use new technology to tackle social exclusion, such as ensuring call centres employ staff who speak different languages in areas with large ethnic groups.
"Culturally, food means something very different to us than it does to other ethnic cultural groups, " said Smikle.
Turning to fears that Kosovo will become a purely ethnic Albanian state, he pointed to the various ethnic groups among the US troops and said they should be an example of how different peoples could live together.
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