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Such a gesture would strengthen France both externally and in terms of the sentiments of its citizens of Algerian descent, whose difficulty in reconciling their dual identity has led some to turn to fundamentalist Islam.
Faced with 1.2 million (highly vocal) Canadians of Ukrainian descent, the Harper government’s strong response to the crisis also reflects domestic political necessity.
It made a wretched start at independence when the industrial region of Transdnistria – populated by Russian and Ukrainian speakers who feared that the majority of Moldovans, who are of Romanian descent, planned closer ties with Romania – declared independence.
But perhaps what countries really fear is not so much high prices but a total market breakdown and descent into an autarkic “Mad Max” world in which oil is scarce, no country is willing to allow trade in the oil it produces, and there is no world market clearing price.
In fact, Pakistan’s descent into a jihadist dungeon occurred not under civilian rule, but under two military dictators – one who nurtured and let loose jihadist forces, and another who took his country to the very edge of the precipice.
On the contrary, Pakistan’s descent into jihadist extremism has benefited China, as it has provided an ideal pretext to advance its strategic interests within its neighbor’s borders.
Racist stereotyping harms the prospects of many non-whites, especially those of African descent.
But if that was so, the attempt has backfired, because East Asians tend to score better than people of European descent.
For six hours, politicians and employees were held at gunpoint; one hostage, Assembly President Julio Borges, described the siege as evidence of the country’s descent into complete “anarchy.”
The war in Chechnya may contribute to the moral corruption of Russia as a whole, to its frightening descent into a culture of violence.
But would such a referendum, now backed by a recently launched campaign for a “People’s Vote,” simply mark another descent into populism, instead of a genuinely democratic conclusion to the Brexit debate?
Unlike the Federal Reserve, however, the European Central Bank hiked interest rates in early 2011, which contributed to the region’s descent into a deeper crisis.
Proponents of such cross-fertilization point to outsiders or their descendants who have attained high positions in their adopted countries: a Latino member of the US Supreme Court, German constitutional lawyers of Turkish origin, French prefects whose parents and grandparents arrived from North Africa, British lords and baronesses with roots in Africa and the Caribbean, and Italian writers of Indian descent.
The Remaking of the Middle EastJERUSALEM – The Middle East’s descent into extreme violence – with mass killings of Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators in Cairo followed closely by Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war – has dashed the hopes raised by the Arab Spring in 2011.
The key is not to be distracted by America’s descent into nationalism.
So far, the European Union and the United States have reacted to Turkey’s descent into authoritarianism with little more than vague statements of concern.
Lacking an institutional base of support, and corrupted by a descent into authoritarianism and utter disregard for Egyptians’ freedoms, the project disintegrated when the hero died.
But would this sentiment extend to those of African descent and to members of other ethnicities who were gradually becoming a more visible part of Australian life?
(When confronted with the view that she was fictional, he replied, “I am 37th in her direct line of descent.
The effect however, has not been a domino-like democratization; instead we are threatened with a domino effect of descent into chaos.
Far from simply offering the people their daily ration of blood, Robespierre also tried, in his way, to check the descent of the masses into a vengeful mob and to save what could be saved of the balances inherent in republican hierarchy.
Islam versus Asia's Chinese DiasporaWhen Malaysia's prime minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamed, recently announced that he intended to resign, Malaysians of Chinese descent joined Mahathir's Malay party loyalists in demanding that he reconsider.
Two years ago, my country’s government attempted to strip me of my nationality, and it is now trying to do the same to thousands of other Dominicans of Haitian descent.
It now deems individuals of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic to have no right to Dominican nationality, because their parents or grandparents, many of them residents for years, if not decades, were supposedly “in transit.”
Only Dominicans of Haitian descent are being singled out.
The crudeness of the government’s campaign would almost be comical if it was not condemning so many Dominicans of Haitian descent to the uncertainty of statelessness.
Worse still, the government is considering a constitutional amendment that would permanently strip nationality rights from thousands of Dominican of Haitian descent.
For 30 years, I have worked to secure equal human and civil rights for Dominicans of Haitian descent.
Perhaps the campaign against Dominicans of Haitian descent will stop when the Dominican judiciary acknowledges that the retroactive denial of citizenship violates fundamental human rights law.
Also, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, who is of Latin American descent and now supports Obama, has an affinity for Latin America.
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