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The region does not need new borders and new protectorates, but rather better states, built to be resilient against ethnic divisions and less vulnerable to external influence.
Russia supported a so-called “autonomy-movement” in northeast Estonia, which is populated mostly by ethnic Russians who settled there during Soviet times.
Georgia has tried to defuse tensions over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but Russia accuses Georgia of aggression and ethnic cleansing.
Some newspapers have stoked the country’s ethnic and regional animosities, and can be wildly inaccurate in their reporting.
Similarly, Facebook closed accounts of individuals and organizations that were using the platform to document violence against Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar, a crisis that the United Nations has called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
But, with the growing success of appeals to identity and renewed ethnic or religious nationalism, that is changing.
Liberals have not worried about ethnic demographics, because they assume that individuals eventually identify with the host society’s norms.
If this is right, the sociopolitical impact of a change in the ethnic composition of a population is neutral, or even beneficial.
The way to square this apparent circle is by noting that we love our motherland not because of a misplaced sense of ethnic or racial superiority, but because it stands for noble and universal values.
Instead, it bases its legitimacy on rapid economic growth and ethnic Han nationalism.
At the Asia Society’s Diversity Leadership Forum earlier this month in New York, McDonald’s Director of Ethnic Marketing Vivien Chen described how the company has focused its marketing on the ethnic consumer.
McDonald’s has adopted a so-called “30-40-50” approach, because ethnic minorities (not only Asian-Americans) represent 30% of its overall business; 40% of its revenue; and 50% of its business from customers under the age of 18.Chen claims that its strategy – called “Leading with ethnic insights” – shows the company’s commitment to the Asian-American consumer.
According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, Asian-Americans – the fastest-growing ethnic group in the country – have, on average, the highest income and best education in the country.
Syria’s problem is not simply Assad’s presence in power; removing his regime would not by itself harmonize the interests embedded in the country’s patchwork quilt of ethnic and sectarian identities.
In Moscow, the EU’s policy of democracy promotion awakens the nightmare of ethnic and religious politics and the threat of the territorial disintegration of the Russian Federation.
There are 150 local Muslim councillors and eight mayors, slightly fewer than other ethnic minorities, but not alarmingly so.
There are four Muslims in the House of Lords and three in the House of Commons, more than for some other ethnic minorities.
This offered some protection to minorities at a time of rising ethnic nationalism.
Beatrix, like Franz Joseph, refuses to make ethnic or religious distinctions between her subjects.
This aristocratic tradition of standing above the narrow strains of ethnic nationalism may be the best argument to hang on to royalty a little longer.
Later in the decade, Europeans and Americans combined to stop ethnic conflict in Bosnia and Kosovo.
We streamlined civil-military relations, guaranteed social and cultural rights, and attended to the problems of ethnic and religious minorities.
A victorious Russia would pose a potent threat to the Baltic states, with their large ethnic Russian populations.
The NATO intervention in Kosovo was an example where a number of governments chose to violate the sovereignty of another government (Serbia) to stop ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Violently torn by religious and ethnic rivalries, Iraq is in no condition to play its part in America’s vision of an Arab wall of containment of Iran.
Or should the new states be delineated according to local ethnic identities, giving minority groups a sense of ownership of at least part of the country?
And ethnic separatists of various hues are indeed seeking autonomy.
Like the prohibition of fine-tuned data – without which positive discrimination is in any case impossible – affirmative action is seen as damaging to the Republican model because it is based on recognition of ethnic differences.
Indeed, while economic growth, accompanied by greater urbanization and higher per capita incomes, has translated into greater demand for fresh water, the population movements that have resulted are now exacerbating local ethnic tensions.
He has declared himself a defender not only of Russian citizens, but of all ethnic Russians, Russophones, and even Orthodox Christians.
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