Sentences with phrase «become multiethnic»

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With 47.7 % of its population of non-Dutch origin, Rotterdam is proud of its multiethnic makeup, and in 2009 it further cemented its multicultral status after Ahmed Aboutaleb became the first Muslim mayor of a major Dutch city.

Although these visions led to two great multiethnic civilizations — Christendom and the Islamic world — neither of these has succeeded in becoming the new global society, partly because each encountered within itself a continual resurgence of pre-Axial ethnic tribalism, and partly because each developed an intolerant exclusiveness which turned it into another closed society, this time of a religious kind.

Quvenzhané Wallis, 11, who two years ago became the youngest person to win a Best Actress Oscar nomination, plays the foster kid living a hard - knock life in the multiethnic version of the Tony - winning 1977 Broadway musical that opens in U.S. movie theaters on Friday.

What might have been a quiet show of Alice Neel portraits of her multiethnic friends at David Zwirner became a rallying point of sorts for empathy.