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The ethnic minority communities were initially very unpopular with the white British population of Smethwick, prompting the election of Conservative Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) Peter Griffiths at the 1964 general election, in which the Labour Party MP was unseated following the campaign slogan " If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour " by his supporters.
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A GOP `` task force ' committee will seek to find out how its party may win support from the ethnic and minority groups in cities.
Kurdish, with 15 %, constitute a major community in southeastern Anatolia, and are the largest ethnic minority.
The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in 1997 — until then the government had stated there were no ethnic minority groups.
In the early 1920s the Yugoslav government of Serbian prime minister Nikola Pasic used police pressure over voters and ethnic minorities, confiscation of opposition pamphlets and other measures of election rigging to keep the opposition, and mainly the Croatian Peasant Party and its allies in minority in Yugoslav parliament.
The Croatian constitution was passed in December, 1990 categorizing Serbs as a minority group along with other ethnic groups.
A German ethnic minority have settled in the mountains between Vicenza, Verona and Trento in Italy ( also known as Seven Communities ) is also called the Cimbri (: it: Cimbri ( minoranza linguistica )).
Beria, an ethnic Georgian, was the Presidium member for internal security affairs, and he was a strong supporter for minority rights and even supported reuniting East and West Germany to establish a strong, and neutral Germany between the capitalist and socialist nations.
A quarter of the people in England's prisons are from an ethnic minority.
* Dong people ( 侗族 ), an ethnic minority group in China
A nation-state for the ethnic group derives political legitimacy from its status as homeland of that ethnic group, from its protective function against colonization, persecution or racism, and from its claim to facilitate the shared cultural and social life, which may not have been possible under the ethnic group's previous status as an ethnic minority.
A minority of scholars have argued that the " Galatia " is an ethnic reference to a Celtic people living in northern Asia Minor, but most agree that it is a geographical reference to the Roman province in central Asia Minor, which had been settled by immigrant Celts in the 270s BC and retained Gaulish features of culture and language in Paul's day.
After the emergence of the Taliban, Iran stepped up assistance to the Northern Alliance minority ethnic groups.
Greeks are also a recognized ethnic minority in Hungary.
However, the issue of ethnic Hungarian minority rights in Slovakia and Romania periodically causes bilateral tensions to flare up.
The main minority ethnic groups of the former Commonwealth, including Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Belarusians and Jews, were getting involved in their own national movements and plans, which met with disapproval on the part of those ethnically Polish independence activists, who counted on an eventual rebirth of the Commonwealth.
* 1956 – Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province.
Cushitic peoples form a small ethnic minority of about 2 %, mostly represented by Oromo and Somali speakers.
* Arabs form a small but historically important minority ethnic group in Kenya.
The largest ethnic minority groups are Turks, Southern Europeans ( mostly Greeks and Italians ), Eastern Europeans ( e. g. Poles, Russians ), Arabs and several other smaller groups.
Thus, ethnic minority populations are found on both the Laotian and Vietnamese sides of the frontier.
Fezzan has remained a kind of North African outback, its oases peopled largely by minority ethnic groups.
The Li ( 黎 ; pinyin: Lí ) or Hlai are a minority ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group.
ethnic and communities
The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.
During World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Greek genocide ( especially in Pontus ), and the Assyrian Genocide almost entirely removed the ancient communities of Armenian and Assyrian populations in Anatolia, as well as a large part of its ethnic Greek population.
As of 2012, both the Kurile Ainu and Kurile Kamchadal ethnic groups lack the fishing and hunting rights which the Russian government grants to the indigenous tribal communities of the far north.
The traditional music of Atlantic Canada is heavily influenced by the Irish, Scottish and Acadian ethnic makeup of much of the region's communities.
In addition to its lasting effects on other genres, it marked the first modern large-scale mixing of musical traditions from multiple ethnic and religious communities within the Celtic diaspora.
Vasea of Cyprus are broadly divided into two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, who share many customs but maintain distinct identities based on ethnicity, religion, language, and close ties with their respective motherlands.
Communities are nested ; one community can contain another — for example a geographic community may contain a number of ethnic communities.
Long a disparaging term in Mexico, the term " Chicano " gradually transformed from a class-based term of derision to one of ethnic pride and general usage within Mexican-American communities, beginning with the rise of the Chicano movement in the 1960s.
Regions within a country, or cultural communities ( linguistic, ethnic, religious ) can also have their own celebrity systems, especially in linguistically or culturally distinct regions such as Quebec or Wales.
" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.
Nonetheless, today their remains a high prevalence of fair haired and eyed ethnic types in the western Anatolian peninsula, especially around former Galatia proving the continued existence of old Galatian communities.
The most vexed issues of independent Malaysia were education and the disparity of economic power among the ethnic communities.
Mahathir bin Mahamad was chosen, an advocate of bumiputra who also tried to benefit the other ethnic communities.
Moi sponsored irregular army units that attacked the Luo, Luhya, and Kikuyu communities, and he disclaimed responsibility by assigning the violence to ethnic clashes arising from a land dispute.
As classical Russian ethnic groups were injected into the Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the urbanization process began and was mainly authored by the Russian communities placed within the Soviet Republic, mostly by policies created by the communist party.
The level of intolerance and separation between the ethnic Albanian and Serb communities during the Tito-period was reported by sociologists to be worse than that of Croat and Serb communities in Yugoslavia which also had tensions but held some closer relations between each other.
* 1958 – Sri Lankan riots of 1958: This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka.
The Efik, Ibibio, Annang, and Ijaw ( the country's fourth-largest ethnic group ) communities also comprise a substantial segment of the population in that area.
The 20th century has been especially fruitful in use of interfaith dialogue as a means of solving ethnic, political, or even religious conflict, with Christian-Jewish reconciliation representing a complete reverse in the attitudes of many Christian communities towards Jews.
Although still used in general contexts, it is now often replaced by other words which are less emotionally charged, such as populations, people ( s ), ethnic groups or communities depending on context.
However due to many cultural differences, and animosity towards a minority perceived to wish to annihilate Israel, a system of passively co-existing communities, segregated along ethnic lines has emerged in Israel, with Arab-Israeli minority communities being left " marooned outside the mainstream ".
The Sandinistas sent Soviet helicopter gunships and elite army units to attack the Miskito Indians ; carried out mass arrests, jailings and torture ; burned down 65 Indian communities ; inflicted ethnic cleansing on 70, 000 Indians ; and tried to starve the Indians by cutting off food supplies.
Ancestor worship is no longer present in modern-day Burma ( except within some ethnic minority communities ), but remnants of it still exist, such as worship of Bo Bo Gyi ( literally " great grandfather "), as well as of other guardian spirits such as nats, all of which may be vestiges of historic ancestor worship practices.
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