Sentences with phrase «specific ethnic groups»

There are certain health conditions that affect specific ethnic groups.

Researchers led by Dr. Joel Ray, have developed the first «newborn weight curves» for specific ethnic groups across Canada, but using only the mother's ethnicity.

After making sure the tests are not biased against specific ethnic groups or genders, testing experts draft an exam with a mix of easy and hard questions.

Choices such as ethnicity and religion are further broken down by specific ethnic groups and religions.

Moreover, this study contributes to the literature on acculturation, and suggests that among specific ethnic groups, young people may oppose interethnic mating, and view parental influence on mate choice as an important mechanism to prevent this type of mating.

Unlike other thalassemias, these very rare a thalassemia - mental retardation syndromes do not preferentially affect any specific ethnic groups.

These overriding trends are similar in many parts of the world, but other changes, especially over the past 10,000 years, are distinct to specific ethnic groups.

This is especially great news for owners of faith - based sites, as well as online dating services catering to specific ethnic groups and locations.

It's ok to prefer, but don't base your relationship on one specific ethnic group.

To do this, we need only to return to the immigration policies of the later part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century to see many examples of such discrimination, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that banned a specific ethnic group or the Asian Exclusion Act of 1924 that effectively banned East Asians and South Asians through national immigration quotas.

Younger children are no more likely to be boys, or from less - educated families, specific ethnic groups, or poorer areas, for example — all of which are also factors related to differences in attainment.

He did it by attacking his neighboring nations and specific ethnic groups.

This means that associative discrimination also applies to indirect discrimination i.e. in a situation where a neutral practice disadvantages people of a specific ethnic group and a person not of the same ethnicity suffers the same disadvantage by association with that group.

And even in countries where napping is discouraged by the mainstream, specific ethnic groups may encourage napping.