Word: ethnically
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...gained from separation are minimal. Yet tribalism in one guise remains an immensely potent element. Every one denounces it, but it has a vitality which reaches well back into the African past. Most modern forces no doubt work to diminish rather than to enhance tribalism, but the major ethnic groups obviously provide pre-existing constituencies which the politician finds it alluring to draw from...
...Connor attacked Massachusetts Republicans for appealing to the voters solely on ethnic, color, racial, and religious lines. "By placing a Negro, a Jew, an Italian, a Pole, and a Yankee on the slate, the Republicans hope to pick up enough minority group votes to push over the top man on the statewide ballot--Senator Saltonstall," he charged...
...nation changed its name officially in 1935 from Persia to Iran, a variation of the word Aryan, one of its principal peoples. This was done in part to point up the ethnic contrast with its Semitic neighbors. Though Moslem, Iran is not Arab, a fact that has saved it from the Nasser-sponsored troubles that have rocked the rest of the Middle East. -Far more beautiful: the ancient tiled mosque city of Isfahan to the south, which in the 16th century reign of Shah Abbas was a greater city than Elizabethan London...
...that culminated last year in Hawaiian statehood. He backed legislation-opposed by the islands' powerful sugar and pineapple interests-that opened the public schools to children of imported Oriental laborers. A consistent critic of discrimination against any race, he has lived to see Hawaii's eight major ethnic groups blend in a harmony that many mainland states might well copy...
Environment. After they escaped from Yemen to freedom, Israeli physicians began to make startling discoveries about them. In most ghetto communities, Jews have shown amazing resistance to tuberculosis, but among the Yemenite Jews there was soon a raging epidemic. This showed that resistance was no genetic or ethnic trait but a product of environment. Though they had lived in hovels, the Yemenite Jews had breathed dry air, relatively clean and germfree. With little exposure to TB, they had developed no resistance...