Sentences with phrase «ethnic group least»

HUFFINGTON POST - Aug 19 - The U.S. Census says African Americans are the ethnic group least likely to marry.

Yet they were the racial and ethnic group least likely, by far, to undergo recommended screening.

Not exact matches

At least six people have died in violence linked to the latest vote, including a man who was shot and killed in the Nairobi slum of Kawangware as security forces moved to quell fighting between gangs from different ethnic groups late on Friday, according to police.

The fundamental notion of dividing society into saints and sinners, separating the saints from the sinners as much as possible, and then instituting a system of external controls to bring the sinners into at least outer conformity with the moral expectations of the saints, originally had nothing to do with the relations between ethnic and racial groups.

In the totalitarian political systems, of which time will correct the excesses but will also, no doubt, accentuate the underlying tendencies or intuitions, the citizen finds his centre of gravity gradually transferred to, or at least aligned with, that of the national or ethnic group to which he belongs.

It is questionable whether a «return» to inherited ethnic and religious identities, at least among the more privileged white groups, would be particularly healthy.

The most recent grisly discovery was a grave that contained the bodies of at least 75 people, all from a single local ethnic group.

As in India, English is the unifying medium that all ethnic groups can deal with at least as a second language, although it may be utterly foreign in some isolated rural areas.

The study reports that of the three ethnic groups compared - Caucasian, black and Mexican American - Caucasian children are overall the least active.

Now if more of the juries of our peers acted like they had at least half a brain in their heads, we could rid Bronx streets of all shades of criminality, regardless of color, ethnic group, religious affiliation, charitable association, education or diseducation, political power or disenfranchised, bank account of seven figures or unemployed public asistance recipient.

Western culture is characterized by a host of artistic, philosophic, literary, and legal themes and traditions; the heritage of Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Jewish, Slavic, Latin, and other ethnic and linguistic groups, as well as Christianity, which played an important part in the shaping of Western civilization since at least the 4th century.

Chair of EBCC10, Professor Fatima Cardoso, who is Director of the Breast Unit at the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, said: «This study suggests that the worse prognosis seen in breast cancer patients from ethnic minority groups in the UK can be at least in part explained by the younger age of this group.

Yet, even the food group ratios are probably not as important as one might think, at least when we consider that there were a multitude of ethnic groups scattered throughout the world where each of them ate in a different way.

And Latinos were the least likely ethnic group to have been on a blind date, with 70 % admitting they hadn't.

Anthologies of reading for schoolchildren now carefully select stories to include all the major ethnic and racial groups; to ensure that girls and women are portrayed in a positive, nonsexist manner; and to include at least one selection dealing with a disabled person.

Among ethnic groups, white parents were the most likely to say they visited the school often (83 percent), and Asian parents were the least likely to do so (68 percent).

Yet they are the least educated of all major ethnic groups.

Provide opportunities for students from the same ethnic group to communicate with one another in their first language where possible (e.g., in cooperative learning groups on at least some occasions).

If a government agency were to pursue funding policies that discriminated against an ethnic group, there could at least be the seeds for a lawsuit.

Although the impact of this policy will not be known for some time, current data do suggest that children of all racial and ethnic groups are more likely to receive permanent homes in the post-ASFA era, at least in terms of increased adoptive and permanent relative placements.