Just an example, again -- a little bit of progress in the ethnic sort of area overall, but a very, very severe and important issue that we get an opportunity now to go and engage on at the ultimate level, at the highest possible level.
Unlike the USA, which has been a well-established federation on roughly the same geographic map over a century, EU is still a collection of states in an area where ethnic diversities, racial differences, ideology and economic antagonism have changed the map several times.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says the group has in the past targeted the area's ethnic Hazara Shia.
There are at least a dozen ethnic minority tribes in the area, each with its own distinct clothing, arts and crafts, cuisines, textiles and music.
Finally, I took the ethnic route and went to the area where his last name comes from, to the major university there.
There are about 300, 000 ethnic Arabs in the Detroit metropolitan area, the biggest concentration of Arabs anywhere in the world outside the Middle East.
The latest fighting was between Islamists militants and ethnic Tuareg in the In-Khalil area, near the border town of Tessalit.
Ethnic Albanians are claiming control of the small area inside Macedonia.
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.
It may have accurately reflected the ethnic mix of the inner-Los Angeles area where the trial was moved to, but it was representative neither of the community where the crime took place nor of the U.S. in general.
Forums would be able to report on the number of parental preferences that were met in an area, and the social and ethnic mix of schools compared with the communities they served - but that is not a statutory requirement.
Eastern DR Congo has suffered from two decades of violence linked to ethnic rivalries and competition for the control of the area's rich mineral resources.
And the area as a whole still relishes its ethnic, multicultural, bohemian, seedy-chic image a hotch potch of quaint antique shops, market stalls and vibrant street life.
The Boise metro area already has a population that is 17% ethnic minority, mostly Hispanic or Asian.
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But the dangers are evident to anyone who travels a few miles out of Skopje, to an area controlled by well-armed, cocksure, ethnic-Albanian fighters, contemptuous of all politicians and enjoying some popular support.
More than 100 people were reported killed in Pakistan's tribal area of South Waziristan in days of fighting between local ethnic-Pushtun tribesmen and foreign militants.
Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski again threatened to declare a formal state of war in Macedonia after ethnic-Albanian rebels, seeking to widen the conflict to an area hitherto unaffected, killed five government soldiers north-west of Skopje, the capital.
However, three different ethnic groups (Mboko, Bakota and Mongombo) live contiguous to the area.
Spanning roughly from Broadway to the Douglass Loop, the area contains more art galleries, bars, coffeehouses, traditional and ethnic restaurants, and is easily explored on foot.
Terai accounts for about a fifth of Nepal's land area but is home to slightly more than half of its population, with the two ethnic groups making up just over a quarter of this.
That's the same ethnic group as the Taliban operating in neighboring Afghanistan and in the nearby mountains of Pakistan's tribal border area.
Graeme Reid, the council's inner-city manager, argues that it is neither feasible nor desirable for the area to go back to what it was, but that a new, vibrant, multi-ethnic city is evolving.
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