Word: ethnically
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Political pressure based on ethnic loyalty is a part of American democracy; it is hardly a recent phenomenon, or one unique to the Jews. In 1794, Irish immigrants protested the Jay treaty that improved relations with Britain. During the Boer War, Dutch-Americans tried to get the U.S. into war on the Boer side. German-Americans during the 1930s agitated on Berlin's behalf. The cold war produced anti-Soviet demonstrations by Americans of Slavic descent...
...Israel, all of it tax deductible. At the same time, the U.S. Government allocated almost another billion in foreign aid to Israel. Jews account for only 3% of the U.S. population, but they are centered in such pivotal states as New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and California. More than most ethnic groups, they vote regularly and are heavy campaign contributors. Thus politicians are aware of the potency of the Jewish vote. When the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations held a recent rally in Washington, about 400 Congressmen and 70 Senators signed the conference petition urging continued military...
...integrated schools cut down hostility between black and white children, two Menninger Foundation researchers found in studying one high school that desegregation "sometimes leads to social segregation and to the solidification of racial stereotyping." Lawnie Taylor, president of a mainly black parents' organization in Pasadena, Calif., agrees. "Simply ethnic balancing of a school, mixing of bodies doesn't solve the problem," he says. "It often produces polarization." Where whites are in the majority, he adds, "cultures, pride and identities of other racial and ethnic groups, especially that of the black student, cannot survive...
Besides Moralist Matthiessen, there is Labor Historian Matthiessen, sketching in the miserable background of the migrant farm worker. Ethnic Historian Matthiessen scrambles to provide a brief study of Chicanos (Mexican Americans) practically back to the time of the conquistadors. On the scene in the summer of 1968, Reporter Matthiessen gets down the local color, checks out some picket lines, balances his story by interviewing some of the biggest growers, and even manages to quiz a few bystanders. What does the waitress at the local dairy freeze think of it all? No comment...
...another form of the dirty pool that they play," he said. "Agnow said nothing about discrimination against blacks because of 'ethnic quotas' of whites...