Sentences with phrase «past ethnic differences»

There are the usual positive messages about working together, as well as a subtle nod toward seeing past ethnic differences.

But the other elements of community organizing would come together again and again: the foot - slogging, one - on - one recruitment effort to form an organization of organizations, the struggle to get past ethnic differences, the taking of the public stage, the sequence of conflict - organization - power as the route to negotiation, and the critical relationship to other social movements — which became a guarded relation to the civil rights movement.

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They believe that not only is human difference a healthy fact of life, but that individuals should understand the past and present dynamics of ethnic identity, relationships and groups, not only because it will make them more sure of themselves, but also because it will strengthen the democratic nature of tire total society.

Quite a number of lives have been lost in the recent past due to our failure to resolve our differences and an increasing canker of intolerance.Ghana prides itself in the peaceful co-existence of persons of diverse, ethnic, religious and political persuasions and we can not allow that reputation to be compromised.

Until scientists understand more of the landscape of the human genome, she says, she will have a hard time believing that adaptive genetic differences between ethnic groups have mushroomed over the past 20,000 years.

Despite financial growth and increased stability in most of the continent over the past decade, it remains divided by social and ethnic differences and marked by political and economic shifts.

Past research has found a significant correlation between overall cognitive ability and individual differences in brain size, age, sex, social class, and ethnic background.