After the second world war, ethnic Germans were driven out and their empty villages repopulated, mainly by Bosnian Serbs.
Also interwoven, for historical context, is a biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the mono-ethnic Turkish republic which replaced the multi-ethnic Ottoman world.
Colorblind in a world still struggling with issues of racial and ethnic strife, he tried to "heal the world" and bring people of all backgrounds together.
They serve a rich community of learners from all over the world, crossing geographic, ethnic and language boundaries.
Naim focuses on the various religious and ethnic groups across the world closing in on each other, particularly in the Arab world.
Ethnic Indian entrepreneurs around the world join TiE (The Indus Enterprise).
Beginning on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people of several ethnic groups throughout China and the world celebrate the Dragon Boat festival, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
America and Canada have compensated ethnic Japanese citizens interned during the second world war.
Cultural diversity and mutual influence of cultures in a changing world, re-examining principles of inter-ethnic and inter-confessional communication.
He says the church inspired wonder because its leaders were able to form a community that cut across the rigid class and ethnic divisions that characterized the ancient Roman world.
But the backlash is more intense in Greece, where the Orthodox clerics portray themselves as guardians of both the nation's ethnic identity and the heartland of the world's more than 200 million Orthodox faithful.
EU. The West is also dismayed by an electoral law, rammed through by Mr Tudjman's supporters, which fails to enfranchise Croatia's displaced ethnic Serbs while entrenching the voting rights of ethnic Croats in Bosnia and around the world, who, not surprisingly, tend to cast their absentee ballots for Mr Tudjman and his cronies.
Here, too, there was a backlash in the last quarter of the century, with the birth of nouvelle cuisine, the rise of celebrity chefs and the proliferation of ethnic restaurants serving dishes from all over the world.
Ever since Mr Obama first announced when American troops would begin to withdraw, many Afghans have been stalked by the fear of a return to the early 1990s, when the world abandoned them and the country imploded under the pressures of ethnic tensions and scheming neighbours.
New York City cab drivers say fewer tourists, restricted roadways and even ethnic bias have caused their incomes to tumble since the World Trade Center attacks.
But Chegdomyn was full of Russian coal miners, their ethnic-German families deported by Stalin from the western front during World War II.
"Whether we like it or not we have to recognize that we are on the brink of a major humanitarian disaster in Kosovo the likes of which have not been seen in Europe since the closing stages of World War II, " he said, adding that more than 500, 000 ethnic Albanians have now been displaced from their homes in Kosovo.
Because we believe in human dignity, the world must have more effective means to stabilize regions in turmoil and to halt religious violence and ethnic cleansing.
In many parts of the world -- let's say, in the continent of Africa -- there are ethnic and tribal conflicts that are very hard to resolve.
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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 village's dynamic mayor, Caroline Fernolend, an ethnic German, is trying to prod well-wishers outside Romania, including in the World Bank, to dip into their pockets.
Throughout the last decades, the world has witnessed several situations in which built or intangible heritage has been at the core of political, ethnic and religious conflicts.
Then they would map the world by transnational issues, as one would with trans-state or trans-regional issues at home: ethnic, racial, linguistic, cultural, religious, business, labor, women, family, generational, environmental, and so forth.
When the area was part of the Ottoman Empire prior to World War One, it was three separate provinces centered on Baghdad, Basra and Mosul, in recognition of its ethnic diversity.
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One of the six cofounders, Hedrick-Wong is a charming and highly articulate ethnic Chinese who has spent more than 16 years working in Asia as an economist and consultant for the World Bank and the United Nations.
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