Sentences with phrase «as ethnic minorities»

Second, we have a small sample of youth who identified themselves as ethnic minorities (n = 15).

However, funding has not been restored for Charter challenges by other groups such as ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians or people with disabilities.

The two rappers are both Tibetan and sometimes write songs about growing up as ethnic minorities in Han - majority China.

Diversity is also held in high regard for the school as 25 % of the student body is comprised of international students while over 25 % of domestic students identify themselves as ethnic minorities.

Exemptions cover groups such as ethnic minorities, rural families with only a daughter and newly married couples who have no siblings.

This is particularly true of certain groups, such as ethnic minorities, those whose parents are not well - off, and women with children.

Hannah Devlin spoke to three young scientists about what brought them to Oxford and their experiences as ethnic minorities working in science.

However, the authors said that donor countries should ensure that vulnerable populations in middle - income countries, such as ethnic minorities who suffer discrimination, refugees and people who inject drugs, continue to get support, since it may be difficult for many countries to withstand the political pressures against helping stigmatized groups.

Therefore, future (longitudinal) research should take a closer look at the advantages of birth centers and should examine to what extent birth centers actually fulfill the personal wishes of specific social groups such as ethnic minorities.

The charity's Sudan officer said: «We've seen that Christians are coming under particular pressure as well as ethnic minorities.

Today those percentages have grown to 16 percent (for staff) and 35 percent (for students), which compares favorably with the national average of 27 percent of all college students who identify themselves as ethnic minorities.

As an ethnic minority, she too faced obstacles and challenges in her pursuit of becoming a better athlete and of obtaining an education.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

But Watford councillor, Rabi Martins, countered that the debate was «not about money - it's about representation - what we as ethnic minority members are calling for is an equal playing field to get selected into target seats».

Therefore, no matter how well to do or how poor you may be, as an ethnic minority you represent the same stereotype to most people in this society.

Not exact matches

Xinjiang, home to China's Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, restricts religious practises — such as growing beards, wearing headscarves, and fasting during Ramadan — that are seen as symbols of «Islamic extremism.»

Others pointed out that this also highlights a point about racism, as black and minority ethnic (BME) people also have this done to them all the time.

The results come as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and ethnic minorities.

But exclusive research published for the first time by Business Insider shows how ethnic minority politicians such as Abbott receive disproportionate amounts of that abuse.

Rising prices for assets seem to make most people better off, unless they are renters, or ethnic minorities, or immigrants, or come from large families and don't inherit a home of their own, or get sick and need to pay for medical care, or get fired, or get their pension fund ripped off or otherwise fall outside what most people think of as the bell - shaped curve of good fortune.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

«As a double minority, he's ethnic Chinese and Christian, he's a very good advertisement for Indonesia's pluralism.

«In particular, Christians from indigenous people groups suffer a double discrimination as both religious and ethnic minorities.»

Sadly our culture has been destroyed by the French government over the years, as was the case for every European ethnic minority in the French territory.

Given the history of medical experimentation and the lack of access to medical resources for certain groups of people, we must be especially concerned that women, racial and ethnic minorities, prisoners, and the poor are not exploited as a result of this research or of human cloning itself.

The global market with «neo-liberal» developments have weakened liberal democratic subjecthood for individual persons, powerless groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities, local communities.

So, the Church created a committee, later renamed as the «Committee for Minority Ethnic Anglicans Concerns».

It's just not seen as a priority, and yet, in our inner cities, if it were not for the minority ethnic people, the Church of England would not be represented.

In her first public address since a bloody military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has been described as «a textbook example of ethnic cleansing» by the United Nations, Aung San Suu Kyi didn't criticise the army and said she did not «fear international scrutiny».

Tim: I think there is always of course the danger that if you are challenging too much of non-Christian faiths, particularly faiths that are held mostly by members of ethnic minorities, that you might conflate criticisms of their faith with criticism of them as individuals and therefore be seen as racist, so people are nervous of that.

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

The global market with its «neo-liberal» developments has weakened the liberal democratic subjecthood of individual persons, powerless groups such as racial and ethnic minorities, and local communities.

In our own time, there are at least some efforts to include women, ethnic minorities, the homeless, and other previously repressed and excluded minorities as fully belonging to social and religious circles.

As well as increasing the number of black and minority ethnic (BAME) clergy, the church also wants to attract more women and younger peoplAs well as increasing the number of black and minority ethnic (BAME) clergy, the church also wants to attract more women and younger peoplas increasing the number of black and minority ethnic (BAME) clergy, the church also wants to attract more women and younger people.

Black and minority ethnic actors play the roles of the Founding Fathers, a casting decision that turns audience expectations upside down as soon as the musical starts.

Elizabeth Henry, the national adviser on Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns says that while Christians are called to go against the flow, churches inevitably act as a microcosm of society and will reflect some of the racist attitudes around them.

Balmer wrote his book, however, as an evangelical who wanted to recover what he considered to be the heart of the movement, which was its late - nineteenth - century coalition of conservative theology and progressive social activism around the poor, women, and ethnic minorities.

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, is a double minority as an ethnic Chinese Indonesian and a Christian.

The poor and oppressed are stereotyped as lazy or violent; outcast people are dirty and ignorant; the ethnic, national, racial, religious and cultural minorities are subject to old and new stereotypes in their own situations as political or social separatists.

In an attempt to provide such a wider perspective, the sermon brought in reference to groups not present ~ specially ethnic minorities not there, other nations whom we view as the enemy, children, and the animals.

As a result, the core cities were slowly reduced to near - bankruptcy, becoming communities of the poor, of the elderly and of ethnic minorities at the bottom of the socioeconomic system.

This crisis surely represents a threat to American society at large, and to the Jews in particular, since, as an ethnic and religious minority, we are likely to become victims when civilization gives way to barbarism.

Often referred to as «blacking - up» the idea of someone of a caucasian ethnicity painting themselves to mimic an ethnic minority is regarded as being incredibly offensive.

So there is evidence that some services are not meeting needs because of gendered and racial assumptions and that these are disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups, such as young families and minority ethnic groups.

It will look at important issues such as men and child protection services, engaging black and minority ethnic men, and engaging young and non-resident fathers.

Other names banned in Morocco include names of Amazigh origin (a minority ethnic group in the country) like, Yelli, as they do not «identify» with the local culture.

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

Just over 50 per cent of the list are female and ten per cent are from ethnic minorities, while it also includes a number of minor celebrities such as author Louise Bagshawe and former Coronation Street actor Adam Rickitt.

In 2010, the Tories won just 16 % per of that ethnic minority vote and critics say recent policies, such as the «go home» vans, will have done little to improve that result in 2015.