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This bloody ethnic conflict, pitting the largely Hindu Tamil minority against the largely Buddhist Sinhalese majority, surprised those who had previously regarded this beautiful country, with its clever population and its strategic location in South Asia, as a model of Asian democracy.

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And so it started to become increasingly clear to me that this pitting of the two movements against each other actually didn't make sense, and that they were in fact much, much more interconnected, and that, in fact, some of the way that the gay rights movement has been able to make such incredible gains so quickly is that it's used some of the same tactics and strategies that were first laid down by the civil rights movement.

The War of Independence impacted upon us terribly, pitting family against family, neighbor against neighbor.

They're also pitting teenagers and their parents in a fundamentally unwinnable fight against their own bodies.

John Henry's legend is a part of a long historical narrative pitting humanity versus technology.

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