In Texas, Baylor University has four new black sororities, despite the efforts of predominantly white sororities to pull in members of the minorities.
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The minorities population of Yunnan is among the biggest in China.
In Scotland and Wales, the minorities of Gaelic (1%) and Welsh (19%) speakers are mostly happy to accept that English is also part of their culture.
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Costumed representatives of the ethnic minorities on the marches of the empire come to Beijing to take up their seats.
So, for the most part, the ethnic minorities have gone for the status quo.
Well first of all I have met quite a lot of candidates from the ethnic minorities and of course in the last Parliament we had a sitting MP and I would want to see that increase, I genuinely would, I'd also like to see the number of women MPs increase.
Attorneys representing the city and the police have argued that stop-and-frisk focuses on areas where crime is highest and that the percentage of minorities stopped is consistent with the percentage of crime suspects who are minorities.
Attorneys representing the city and the police have argued that the tactic focuses on areas where crime is highest and that the percentage of minorities stopped is consistent with the percentage of crime suspects who are minorities.
With each 2% increase in the proportion of minorities in the electorate, Democratic candidates gain a net 1.6% or so of the overall vote.
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He said the MBPA had done "some really sterling and excellent work" but it was better for the two organisations to "see how we can work with the Metropolitan Police Service together and try and increase the number of minorities within the organisation".
Who, then, is the ideal advocate for the rights of religious minorities in the Muslim world?
Moreover, Kosovar independence would likely spur irredentist movements among the Muslim minorities in all Balkan states.
If the Tories could replicate among ethnic minorities the progress they have made among gays, they would win a big electoral prize.
The issue of polygamy encapsulates the debate over whether minorities have the right to follow their own customs or conform to established Judaeo Christian values.
"The tiny minorities who espouse violence have been rejected, " he added.
Ominously, his advisers have let it be known that he favours a new kind of centrism, one with more appeal for the unions and racial minorities than the old kind.
Although the Iraqi government has made commitments to enshrining the rights of religious minorities in the country's new constitution, the lack of security makes these difficult to enforce on the ground.
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (CNN) -- Tanzania's first elected albino lawmaker says his win is a major victory for the embattled minorities who are targeted for body parts believed to have special powers.
The persons belonging to minorities have the right to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion and to use their own language in private and in public, freely and without interference or any form of discrimination.
Yet, at the same time, the failure of minorities to get far up the social ladder shows the limits of the French model.
Although white males still make up almost 60% of foreign service employees, the number of minorities has increased steadily in the past two decades.
While majorities have to tolerate the views of minorities, minorities also need to tolerate the rights of the majority to disagree with and even disapprove of them.
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In general, the more legal protection minorities enjoy, the more they will want to invest.
Critics have long argued that the voter ID law targeted minorities and the poor in the state.
But, on the whole, other minorities have eschewed the approach, and blacks themselves might wish their colleges were a little less distinctive.
She went on to laud her Latina upbringing and culture before delivering a brief history on the ascension of women and minorities to the federal bench.
Mr Putin has said the law is needed to protect the rights of minorities in ethnically mixed regions such as the North Caucasus.
Without this change, Mr Powers says, the proportion of minorities at his university will decline: the top-10% plan yields only about 25% black and Hispanic students, but the university could admit far more if it retained control over the other half of its class.
Michael White, professor of sociology at Brown University, said the rise of minorities fits into a longer-term evolution of the U.S. population, a mosaic that has been adapting to ethnic change since the first Census was recorded in 1790.
They prefer social history, generally of the sort that describes the suffering of women, racial minorities, the poor.
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