Sentences with phrase «ethnic divides»

This view has become so pivotal in the West it's easy to forget or marginalise other ethnic divides, privileges and racism issues, or subsume all of them in the assumption of white privilege.

There is a deep ethnic divide between the political factions in Israel that backed bombings and the populations in Israel that were the target of the bombings, with almost no overlap, that is very easily discerned with superficial examination.

The UK is becoming a racial melting pot with a surge in the number of relationships and marriages across ethnic dividing lines in the last decade, according to official figures.But while the number of people from black, Asian and mixed - race backgrounds settling down with someone from another group have all risen, white people remain by far the most segregated on the domestic front.

In Kenya, politics split on ethnic divide.

(Calif.) A much - anticipated bill aimed at repealing the state's controversial ban on most bilingual education in K - 12 schools faces its first legislative test next week, as supporters seek to reshape the debate from one that generates ethnic divide to a question of global competitiveness.

Empty aquifers could push ethnic divides there into open conflict, where their consequences risk spilling over into Western Europe.

He points out immigration was a very hot issue in the presidential debates, and «some of the racial and ethnic divides became part of the narrative so I think that's playing into the anxiety of many in terms of what their place might be in the United States moving forward and then they look to Canada as a potential solution.»

By contrast, segregation in northeastern and Rust Belt cities was less affected by the crisis, likely due to relatively few foreclosures and more deeply entrenched ethnic divides.

I predict millennials in particular will continue to drop out of religious life, and the ethnic divides within American Christianity, which many sought to heal with a quick - fix approach to «racial reconciliation» that bypassed repentance and justice, will only widen.

But one wonders if the truly impressive witness would be a movement that, despite its serious political differences (as well as racial and ethnic divides), still worships and prays together, and warmly calls each other brothers and sisters in Christ.

Providing heart - surgeries for sick Iraqi children allowed them to build relational bridges across religious and ethnic divides.

«Indeed your fervent and sincere prayers, which cut across religion, political and ethnic divides, has energised me to re-dedicate myself and this administration to the task of building a great Nigeria.

«Nigerlites are a peaceful people and very accommodating to all Nigerians irrespective of their sociopolitical and ethnic divide.

The public - private divide is still however surpassed by the regional and ethnic divides.

But widest of all is the ethnic divide where the Labour lead over the Conservatives was a massive 38 points greater among non-white voters compared with whites.

This factor becomes an obstacle to any other willing member who is not of this ethnic divide.

-- a crucial component of the ongoing racial and ethnic divide: Is more desegregation needed?

Over the holiday break, Kyle Spencer of The New York Times reported on how testing and a school district's effort to ease student pressures has led to an «ethnic divide» in the community.

They teach us to value and respect nature, to look for the common ground across religious, sovereign and ethnic divides and to help boost our collective efforts to protect the earth from environmental threats into higher orbits.