The schisms of ethnic group or tribe can often define attitudes in Afghanistan.
This happened in both men and women, irrespective of ethnic group.
The traditional Li textile techniques of spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidering are employed by women of the Li ethnic group of Hainan Province, China, to make cotton, hemp and other fibres into clothing and other daily necessities.
The other camp favours the index of segregation, which measures how the members of an ethnic group are distributed.
The guilt I felt about judging someone so quickly - and let's be frank - on the grounds of their ethnic group made me feel quite ashamed.
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.
Anne Guarnera, spokeswoman for the Hispanic College Fund, said Latinos are inspired by the fact that someone of their ethnic group is being portrayed in such a positive light.
Gregory Rodriguez, a researcher at Pepperdine University, argues that foreign-born Hispanics have three advantages which help them make up for their lack of educational qualifications: the highest number of wage-earners per family of any ethnic group, the highest participation in the labour force, and stable families.
Mr. Ye's mother is a member of the Bai ethnic group, which comprises more than 65% of the city's population of 652, 000.
The 200 or so Moken living on the Surin Islands are part of a larger ethnic group spread out across the Mergui Archipelago off the coasts of Burma and Thailand.
Gathering in fields or villages during community festivals, members of the Korean ethnic group in Jilin and other provinces in north-eastern China offer a traditional sacrifice to the God of the Land to pay homage to nature and pray for good fortune and a plentiful harvest.
The Taliban are relatively more appealing, at least to fellow members of the Pashtun ethnic group.
Only 17% of second-generation Asian-Americans say that their friends are mostly members of their own ethnic group.
As carriers of Li culture, traditional Li textile techniques are an indispensable part of the cultural heritage of the Li ethnic group.
Mr Gilbert said residents could describe themselves as Cornish on sections of the form including country of birth, ethnic group and national identity.
It has also reached out to marginalized members of the Kimbundu ethnic group, which formed a large base for the MPLA when the party seized power in 1975.
This is the beginning of the farmers dance of China s Korean ethnic group, a popular folk practice passed on by senior members of a community to younger generations.
The unequal treatment meted out to people of other ethnic backgrounds has prompted a group of activists in Lebanon, in collaboration with migrant community leaders, to form the Anti Racism Movement (ARM), committed to documenting, exposing and challenging racist behaviour and attitudes in the country.
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.
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.
Prosecutors say that during his 17 months in power, Gen Rios Montt and his chief of military intelligence, Gen Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, ordered the deaths of more than 1, 700 members of the Ixil Maya ethnic group, whom they suspected were supporting the rebels.
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.
For many conservatives, the modern meaning of King's quote is clear: Special consideration for one racial or ethnic group is a violation of the dream.
Then she realised that, according to the tradition of the Luhya, their ethnic group, Mr Omukuba's widow would be given to a new husband by the family elders.
Most of the people killed in the valley are members of Kenya's Kikuyu ethnic group, who solidly rejected Mr Moi and his Kenya African National Union at December's flawed election.
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.
As the sculptor of the statue, I alone conceived the idea of a group of three soldiers of diverse racial and ethnic characterisations, because it was a true reflection of the actual participants.
This is significant because the changing nature of the American population means that no party can hope to gain power having alienated the vote of various ethnic groupings - that group will simply vote against them.
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.
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.
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