Word: ethnicities
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Secret Protocol. The problem of Poland's ethnic Germans dates from 1945, when Silesia, East Brandenburg, Pomerania and East Prussia, the former German provinces east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, were ceded to Poland at the Potsdam Conference. Some 9,575,000 Germans lived in the four provinces then; 7,330,000 have since left. In December, when West Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse boundary in the Bonn-Warsaw Treaty, a secret protocol paved the way for the remaining Germans to leave...
...think the use by faculty of ethnic principles of group segmentation-which is what a Jewish faculty group, Irish faculty group, Negro faculty group, etc, amount to-a sad and pathetic event, especially in Harvard University. It can only do harm to the intellectual and academic life of this institution and I should hope that those who participate in formalized ethnic groupings within the Harvard Faculty reflect again on their behavior...
Peterson did not dismiss the possibility that the number of Jews in each entering class has decreased in the past few years. "We go out of our way not to find out about an applicant's ethnic background," he said, "but a 10 per cent drop is not impossible. There has been a 10 per cent drop in admissions from several traditional areas, such as prep schools...
...lacks the privileges that other Soviet ethnic groups enjoy. Other nationalities, such as the Ukrainians and Armenians, have their own provinces where they can speak their language and exercise a degree of cultural autonomy. The Jew is forbidden his own schools, and he cannot learn Hebrew or Yiddish in the public schools; they simply are not taught. Since the 1940s, the Hebrew and Yiddish theater has been almost completely closed down. The only Yiddish periodical that is allowed to be published is a monthly journal edited by a party hack. The so-called Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, which Stalin...
...Consciousness. The campaign has had one effect that the Soviets did not expect. It has reawakened ethnic consciousness in young Jews, who were generally believed to have favored assimilation into Soviet society...