However, there is still the lack of the awareness towards mother-tongue based bilingual education in the general public and in some ethnic communities.
Sir Michael told the annual conference of the National College for School Leadership in Birmingham that he recognised there had been big improvements in areas such as London, and among some ethnic minority groups, in recent years.
Some racial and ethnic groups are at higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
Some Asian American ethnic groups experience poverty far above the national average.
Ask a local for a good restaurant in Amsterdam and you will usually be pointed to some variant of ethnic food not native to the country.
Some other local ethnic groups, however, have opposed the deal.
Fatih Tas runs the Aram Publishing House, which for the past four years has routinely put out books focusing on Turkey's long-oppressed population of some 12 million ethnic Kurds.
Although Myanmar has negotiated ceasefires with some of the ethnic insurgents along the border, defence spending keeps climbing, partly because the government fears an uprising, like the one in 1988 that followed demonetisation.
Mr Mydat said his claims about some schools not wanting ethnic minority supply teachers are against a background in which most schools have become much more professional about hiring supply teachers.
But it said evidence revealed the general UK population was not at increased risk of TB, HIV or malaria infection from migrants, but some UK-born ethnic communities did have a higher risk of disease because of their links to countries where the diseases were endemic.
However, given the country's complicated ethnic mix, some sort of alliance-building will be inevitable.
But there are plenty of cultural offerings across London that draw students to every corner for some top nightclub, bargain ethnic restaurant or museum exhibition.
That does not mean however that some of us cannot succeed our ethnic backgrounds notwithstanding.
Many African borders encompassed lots of ethnic groups and divided some of them.
There may be other factors as well: overall poverty, disparity of wealth, the presence and proportion of and relationships among various ethnic groups, and perhaps some measure of social stability like church attendance.
Mr Myant has said that the suggestion that qualifications in Welsh or in ethnic minority languages were in some way second rate would be "deeply insulting" both to the speakers of the languages and to the students.
At each stop children were getting on and off - they were of every ethnic and religious background, some with scarves or turbans, some talking quietly, others playing and occasionally misbehaving together - completely at ease and trusting one another.
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.
In 1999, after the Macpherson report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the Labour government set police forces targets to boost ethnic minority officer numbers and although some achieved it many have found it difficult.
This should be enough to attract good young European players to sign on, and could even persuade some to stay on in a multi-ethnic city with a growing middle class whose lingua franca is English.
Some are moving to areas dominated by their own ethnic groups to ensure strength in numbers during the election season.
Some of which may had been fueled along simmering ethnic tensions.
Although many Kazakhs may not be sad to see the Russians go, some regret the departure of the country's ethnic Germans, who are considered industrious.
Another factor, suggests a spokeswoman for the Russell Group, is that applications from ethnic minority pupils are disproportionately focused on some of the most over-subscribed and competitive courses, such as medicine.
Latinos are the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the US, making up some 15% of the population, and in 2008 will make up about 9% of the eligible electorate.
Protracted though the judicial process may be, Fiji is finally settling some important scores with those who sought to establish an ethnic supremacist state in the midst of the South Pacific four years ago.
So what if a few ethnic take-aways go out of business, some may retort.
Ashutosh Varshney offers to explain why some places in India are peaceful, others nearby prone to ethnic violence.
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