Sentences with phrase «ethnic minorities did»

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Contact with women and ethnic minorities lessens unconscious bias, but since neither group is represented much in the upper echelons of business, it can be hard for executives to get that exposure — something not helped by the fact that many white, male higher - ups feel they don't know how to talk to younger women or minorities.

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.

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.

Together these leaders — long identified with the struggle for racial and economic justice — demand a test of vouchers with one basic criterion in mind: «Do public scholarships help or hurt our poorest children and the children of ethnic minorities?

The Holocaust — the Shoah — did not begin with the mass killing of Jews or other ethnic or religious minorities, or even Hitler's political opponents.

Mulsims in America are like all other ethnic minorities — they do not assimilate and hang together.

He added: «He himself wanted to introduce the work of the meeting, thanking the participants gathered to pray and reflect together on what to do to meet the dramatic situation of Christians living in the Middle East and other religious and ethnic minorities who are suffering because of the violence raging throughout the region.»

Such models do not create genuine pluralism; rather they perpetuate unity in conformity, meaning that the experiences of ethnic minority social groups are unacceptable when they fail to coincide with the normative criteria of human experience prescribed by the white majority social group.

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».

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.

I think if people looked around, they would have seen that a lot of ethnic minorities who were believers were struggling, and if you didn't have friends in those worlds, you wouldn't realize it was an epidemic.

Hudson - Wilkin said, «With my hand on my heart, I do not believe that the Church respects and embraces its minority ethnic membership.»

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

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.

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.

She says this not reflective of the wider membership, but concedes the party has more to do to bolster its ethnic minority and female representation.

While not theoretically an easy needle to thread, Neil O'Brien's Policy Exchange, with its simultaneous focus on improving life in the North and appealing to ethnic minority voters, did just that.

The Conservatives will struggle to win the next election unless it does more to attract ethnic minority voters, former Tory party chairman Baroness Warsi has warned.

Continue reading «Gavin Barwell MP: What can Conservatives do to increase our support among black and minority ethnic communities?»»

Yesterday I argued that if the Conservative Party doesn't increase its support among Britain's black and minority ethnic (BME) communities then in the medium to long term it will cease to be a party capable of winning general elections.

The Conservatives will struggle to win the next election unless they do more to attract ethnic minority voters, former Tory party chairman Baroness Warsi has warned.

Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg separately gave evidence, with all three leaders being challenged about what they are doing to improve the proportions of people likely to be elected to Parliament who are women, LGBT, disabled, or from an ethnic minority.

17:49 - Great video from the brilliant Don't Panic, which shows the BNP denying access to a meeting to ethnic minority Brits but allowing white immigrants - in this case a Swedish woman - entry.

When David Cameron says he wants to broaden representation in Parliament, that does not just extend to women and black and minority ethnic (BME) members, it goes right across the spectrum of interests and backgrounds.

Former universities minister David Lammy rained vitriol on the government's proposals, arguing they did nothing to enhance the prospects for ethnic minority and poor students.

Runnymede Trust did a survey for the 2010 general elections, called the Ethnic Minority British Election Survey (EMBES).

That is why we, as a party, must do much more to reach out to ethnic minority communities.

Strains of Journey's Don't Stop Believin» pumped through footage of Nick Clegg chummying up with young apprentices, ethnic minorities, Paralympians, Aung San Suu Kyi, and err, Ed Davey.

And just in case there is anyone out there who still thinks that the work we've done to get more women candidates, more black and minority ethnic candidates... that this is some kind of political correctness that Conservatives should avoid.I would say no.

Interestingly a recent MORI poll commissioned by the Ministry of Justice found that both whites and visible ethnic minorities had a greater sense of belonging to England than they did to Britain.

And that doesn't even begin to capture the huge amounts of dialects (and local languages when there were ethnic minorities) that were spoken (or still are) before countries heavily promoted their official languages.

I have argued that the Party had made strategic errors through tokenism and ignorance; that it doesn't matter if we think we're not racist but ethnic minority voters do, and that it's time to end the Conservative war on multiculturalism (which, by the way, is supported by 71 per cent of Tory voters).

But he does have black and ethnic minority candidates now in seats he expects to win at the election.

11.26 am: Clegg says it's bad at Westminster, where the Lib Dems don't have a single ethnic minority MP, but not at other levels, such as local government.

(The Lib Dems don't have any ethnic minority MPs.)

No previous leader of the Conservatives has done as much, for example, to bust open the selection of Parliamentary candidates to include more women (now over a third) and more black and minority ethnic candidates.

«Police chiefs will be encouraged to favour ethnic minority candidates when it comes to recruitment and promotion, even if the law has to be changed to allow them to do so, under new proposals from Labour.

There is limited UKIP potential here due to the ethnic minority vote here and I don't think the Conservatives will do any worse than the 2011 by election result.

Given that he was doing this in the middle of Tower Hamlets, a borough with one of the highest proportion of ethnic minority residents in the country, this appeared perfectly sensible.

It is unique in being a seat that has a majority of ethnic minority voters, but a Conservative Member of Parliament - a sign that the party does not struggle to quite the same extent with Hindu voters as it does with Muslim or black voters.

Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK's chief executive, said: «As someone with an ethnic minority background myself and as a parent, this study highlights a very worrying reason why girls from some minority groups don't get the HPV vaccine.

Around 20 per cent of girls from ethnic minority backgrounds are not being vaccinated against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) because they feel they don't need to have it, according to a Cancer Research UK survey presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool.

Dr Alice Forster, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at University College London, said: «Although around 87 per cent of girls in the UK do have the vaccine it's concerning to see that some girls from some ethnic minority groups feel they don't need to have it.

No one talks about this very often, but I have observed that, with the exception of those that receive government grants or contracts, private companies do not have many incentives to ensure that ethnic minorities are treated fairly in the hiring and firing process.

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.

NASW does not collect statistics on the ethnic backgrounds of its members, but one longtime NASW member tells Science Careers, in an e-mail, «We have extremely few minority members, so few that I can probably name a good proportion of them just off the top of my head.»

When we decided to do a feature on ethnic minorities in science, it was a given that we would take an international approach.

The number of white women (all U.S. citizens) earning doctoral degrees has almost doubled over that span, and ethnic and racial minorities, a group that consists of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, have done even better, nearly tripling their presence.

Do you think that U.S. education policy should work on improving the science - math performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities, rather than the performance of all children?

Schools, teacher quality and family income all play a large role in student success, but these factors do not fully explain the academic differences seen in the U.S. between whites and disadvantaged racial / ethnic minorities, including blacks and Hispanics.