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"ethnic group" Definitions
  1. a group of people who have a shared sense of identity because they have their own cultural background, traditions, history, language, etc.
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A member of the Luo ethnic group holds rocks after a standoff with members of the Kalenjin ethnic group in Kisumu.
Many top military chiefs are Dinka, the same ethnic group as President Salva Kiir Mayardit, and many rebels are Nuer, the ethnic group of former vice president Riek Machar.
The Kurds are an ethnic group of perhaps 35 million in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey, and they have long argued that they are the world's largest ethnic group without a state.
But two years later, a civil war broke out when President Salva Kiir, who belongs to the majority Dinka ethnic group, fired his deputy, Riek Machar, who belongs to the Nuer ethnic group.
Heart disease is the leading killer of adults nationwide, and South Asians, the second fastest-growing ethnic group in America, have a higher death rate from the disease than any other ethnic group.
We actually have the lowest revenue of any ethnic group.
No American ethnic group is as reliably and deeply partisan.
But that anger isn't directed at any individual ethnic group.
Kanyonyo belongs to the Kikuyu, Kenya's most populous ethnic group.
Some claim to be Bamar, the country's main ethnic group.
It's a traditional Peranakan (a local Singaporean ethnic group) dish.
The Han [the dominant ethnic group in China] are farmers.
The Sinhalese ethnic group, who are mainly Buddhist, make up the majority of Sri Lanka's population, while the Tamil ethnic group, who are mostly Hindu but also include Christians and Muslims, are a minority.
Soldiers loyal to President Kiir — who belongs to the Dinka ethnic group, South Sudan's largest — battled troops led by Riek Machar of the Nuer ethnic group, which is believed to be the second largest.
Assyrians are the last Aramaic-speaking ethnic group in the world.
Worsening ties with the country's main ethnic group certainly won't help.
Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States.
The Kurds are a minority ethnic group in the Middle East.
Asked what ethnic group he belongs to, his answer is pointed.
The ethnic group is not a recognized minority in the country.
The infections have not been confined to a particular ethnic group.
But that language belongs to no particular ethnic group or place.
The military is dominated by the Dinka, the president's ethnic group.
The Oromos, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, have been marginalized for decades.
No ethnic group is more or less susceptible to the coronavirus.
Latinos — their voter turnout increased more than any other ethnic group.
That would help generate a function to distinguish the ethnic group.
Armed men from the Nyangatom ethnic group in South Sudan, who speak a similar language to the Turkana, Choro's own ethnic group, have occupied an area called Soya near his village since November 2018, he said.
No ethnic group should ever want their vote to be taken for granted, but we're the only ethnic group people are already predicting where we are going and that is not good for us as a people.
Last year, Pope Francis, in a dramatic gesture, kissed the feet of Mr. Kiir, who belongs to the majority Dinka ethnic group, and Mr. Machar, of the Nuer ethnic group, to coax them into putting differences aside.
Pashtuns are Afghanistan's largest ethnic group and have always dominated Afghan governments.
Kurds, as an ethnic group, form about 20 percent of Turkey's population.
The middlemen usually come from the same ethnic group as the migrants.
After all, I'm Polish, too—another ethnic group known for eating tubers.
Xinjiang has a population of eight million Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic group.
Caregivers come from every age, gender, socioeconomic, and racial or ethnic group.
Latino voters are crucial as the second largest ethnic group behind whites.
Hispanics are America's youngest and least-educated major racial or ethnic group.
Protesters in the Oromo ethnic group, Ethiopia's largest, say they feel marginalized.
The Zulu, an ethnic group of Southern Africa, originate from KwaZulu-Natal.
Hispanics start businesses at a faster rate than any other ethnic group.
Each ethnic group speaks its own language, making it easy to differentiate.
Harvard has denied stereotyping or discriminating against any racial or ethnic group.
It is the nation's largest ethnic group, but has long been marginalized.
It's not an ethnic group, it's not a religion — it's an ideal.
Both were designed to limit the immigration of one particular ethnic group.
The Kurds are the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East.
The nomads come from a predominantly Muslim ethnic group called the Bakarwals.
"People shouldn't see you for your nationality or ethnic group," he said.
"Most historical African art is classified according to ethnic group," she explained.
Machar was an ethnic Nuer, the second-largest ethnic group in the country.
Ethiopia's fifth-biggest ethnic group was to vote on statehood in a referendum.
Crucially, Mr Wilders took aim not at Islam, but at an ethnic group.
Only 2 of 651 producers were females from an underrepresented racial/ethnic group.
Poor white British children do worse in school than any other ethnic group.
Islam is the only American religion without a majority race or ethnic group.
Sri Lankan Muslims, on the other hand, identify as a separate ethnic group.
She volunteers her Saturdays to listen to different elders and ethnic group leaders.
The work is a matter of survival for her Mbya Guaraní ethnic group.
In fact, every ethnic group in Texas scores higher than their Iowa counterparts.
K. We are a distinct ethnic group,' people look at that as negative.
Circassians, a mostly Muslim ethnic group, are also drafted into the Israeli military.
Many of the weavers, who mostly come from the Tai ethnic group, survived.
The Uighurs, numbering about 11 million, are the largest ethnic group in Xinjiang.
The largest ethnic group, Indo-Guyanese are also numerous in the business community.
Many there identify as much with their ethnic group as their nation state.
The Taliban killed Mazari, a leader from the Hazara ethnic group, in 1995.
Tom can't help but notice which ethnic group Mark excluded from his tally.
One ethnic group — the Sidama — is seeking to create a 10th semiautonomous region.
They were the Tamil Tigers, not simply members of the Tamil ethnic group.
The crackdown on the Rohingya that ensued has engulfed the entire ethnic group.
For more than two years, soldiers loyal to President Salva Kiir — who belongs to the Dinka ethnic group, South Sudan's largest — battled troops led by Riek Machar of the Nuer ethnic group, which is believed to be the second largest.
Uyghurs are culturally and linguistically distinct from Han Chinese, the country's dominant ethnic group.
They are refused Myanmar citizenship and are not recognized as a legitimate ethnic group.
A multi-ethnic group of elementary age children are playing together outside at recess.
Hosea pointed out that she's Polynesian, an ethnic group that is vulnerable to obesity.
Portnow, however, dismissed concerns that the awards show is biased toward one ethnic group.
With a quarter of the city's population, Jews made up its largest ethnic group.
As the size of an ethnic group increases, in-group contact and interaction increases.
Wu, like his predecessor Chen Quanguo, belongs to China's majority Han Chinese ethnic group.
Twins are common in the Yoruba ethnic group that dominates this part of Nigeria.
A lorry driver from the country's biggest ethnic group, the Sinhalese, ended up dead.
He is a member of the Chin ethnic group from the northwest of Myanmar.
Politicians often win votes by stirring up animosity against the ethnic group next door.
Abiy, a newcomer from another ethnic group, the Oromo, took the helm in April.
Myanmar does not consider the Rohingya a native ethnic group and most are stateless.
The Kurds are a large, stateless ethnic group spread across Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
Jews vote at a higher intensity than any other U.S. religious or ethnic group.
Many at El Feel come from the Tebu ethnic group present in southwest Libya.
The population is mostly Uyghur—a Turkic Muslim ethnic group with strikingly Eurasian features.
Malong, a former elected civilian governor, is a member of the Dinka ethnic group.
The Malagasy are an ethnic group that forms almost the entire population in Madagascar.
The Rohingya are not recognized as an indigenous ethnic group and are denied citizenship.
The Ndebele remains the dominant ethnic group around the park and throughout southern Zimbabwe.
It is not clear what ethnic group the Inn Din mass grave might hold.
Tarring an entire religion or ethnic group with this crime is just plain wrong.
Many in these neighborhoods are from the Lebou ethnic group, traditionally a fishing community.
This is true of no other age or ethnic group in the United States.
The largest ethnic group was Asians, with 77 students, followed by whites, with 70.
"When any ethnic group feels they are in danger, they pull together," he said.
The Rohingya are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group from Rakhine State in western Myanmar.
They are Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group driven from Myanmar, now living in Bangladesh.
It seems unlikely that any ethnic group is genetically more intelligent than any other.
The Ewe are an ethnic group; the Yewe is a cult within that group.
The Maranaos, the ethnic group that dominates the area around Marawi, are mostly Muslims.
About three-quarters are considered Turkish and a quarter belong to the Kurdish ethnic group.
Kainerugaba's successor at the head of the SFC is also from the Hima ethnic group.
Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing ethnic group in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas.
Equally striking is that both are northerners, Muslim and belong to the Fulani ethnic group.
Those targeted in the raids were from the Nuer ethnic group, which straddles the border.
Imagine if they did his for a racial or ethnic group, as was done historically?
The Kurds are a separate ethnic group from the Arabs and are primarily Sunni Muslims.
Those ranking their own race or ethnic group higher than others ranked high on ethnocentrism.
Is a whole ethnic group really being persecuted because of the texture of their skin?
Any company that wants to target its goods or services to a particular ethnic group.
Most were from the Fulani ethnic group, whom the jihadists have targeted heavily for recruitment.
Most of the victims, like Mr. Thu Ya, are members of the Rohingya ethnic group.
A military crackdown against the Rohingya ethnic group has forced hundreds of thousands to flee.
Black men have the lowest life expectancy of any ethnic group in the United States.
The ethnic group makes up more than 80 percent of the state's 27 million people.
He's from the Tai Lue tribe, part of the Lao Loum, or lowland, ethnic group.
"The crackdown on the Rohingya that ensued has engulfed the entire ethnic group," Wildman wrote.
Only 26.3 percent of characters were black, Latino, Asian, or of another underrepresented ethnic group.
Decades of migration by Han, China's dominant ethnic group, have transformed Xinjiang, fueling Uighur anxieties.
With a population of around 11 million, Uighurs are the largest ethnic group in Xinjiang.
People were separated according to their sex or ethnic group and guarded by armed men.
Like President Ghani and his supporters, Hizb-e is dominated by the Pashtun ethnic group.
Members of the Dogon ethnic group have been accused of past attacks against the Fulani.
"All of us are products of our family, faith, race and ethnic group," he said.
The group, called Dan Na Ambassagou, is composed of members of the Dogon ethnic group.
But China has broken new ground by identifying one ethnic group for law enforcement purposes.
The Kurds are the region's fourth-largest ethnic group, spread across Iran, Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
The Irish, our mother's ethnic group, were once not considered fully white in 19th century America.
The predominantly Muslim Uyghurs are ethnically distinct from the country's majority ethnic group, the Han Chinese.
Herders from the Peul ethnic group have long complained of losing their cattle to armed bandits.
Oromo are the country's largest ethnic group, to which both Jawar and Prime Minister Abiy belong.
The majority of residents in the area are Muslims belonging to the stateless Rohingya ethnic group.
Most people in Adjumani are from the Madi ethnic group and most in Amuru are Acholi.
The predominately Muslim Uyghurs are ethnically distinct from the country's majority ethnic group, the Han Chinese.
He accused Abiy, a member of the country's largest ethnic group, the Oromo, of selective justice.
He is Henry Van Thio, a member of the Chin ethnic group from the country's northwest.
Youth. Latinos represent the nation's youngest major racial/ethnic group, with a median age of 85033.
Fighting has often run along ethnic lines, pitting Kiir's dominant Dinka ethnic group against Machar's Nuer.
Mr. Kiir's loyalists belong mainly to his Dinka ethnic group, while Mr. Machar is a Nuer.
This is the classic definition of genocide where an ethnic group is a target for annihilation.
Another said that his actions were typical of the way Visayans -- his ethnic group -- joked around.
Like any ethnic group, Travellers are varied in their religious beliefs, politics and socio-economic status.
Here she scrutinizes what she calls the new ethnic group on the scene: straight white men.
Residents blamed people from Mr. Kenyatta's ethnic group, the Kikuyu, from which he draws strong support.
In response, Facebook announced it would no longer allow ethnic group targeting for those ad categories.
Did you consider extending the ban on ethnic group targeting to all ads, including political ads?
The C.C.P. credits him with having quieted there a restive ethnic group unhappy with its rule.
A Central African wooden reliquary figure from the Fang ethnic group is placed inside the clock.
The Rakhine's shared faith, however, has not fostered unity with Myanmar's dominant ethnic group, the Bamar.
"I discovered there's a trance music coming from every direction, and every ethnic group," he said.
Those who were killed in Mirza Olang were also Shiites, belonging to Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic group.
Black residents are still the city's largest ethnic group, but newcomers are changing the culture drastically.
Kiir is a Dinka, the country's largest ethnic group, and Machar comes from the Nuer community.
The Han ethnic group is in the majority, with more than 90 percent of the population.
I've photographed the Kurds, who have known only persecution — an entire ethnic group that remains stateless.
Halimah also faced further criticism as the presidency this year was reserved for a particular ethnic group.
In public housing for example, quotas are enforced to prevent any ethnic group from being over-represented.
Members of the Mayo Yoreme ethnic group celebrate Holy Week in San Miguel Zapotitlán, Mexico, April 19.
These shifts along partisan lines are larger than the shift found in each racial or ethnic group.
A. The Kurds are an indigenous ethnic group with a population of 25 million to 35 million.
"There are qualified people of every ethnic group and gender," said "Black Panther" stuntwoman Janeshia Adams-Ginyard.
The US and Turkey have quarreled over the Kurds, a Middle Eastern ethnic group, in years past.
One soldier said the word "nuer" - relating to Gatulak's ethnic group, the same as the opposition leader.
Earlier this year, Rotich's questioning by police infuriated politicians from Ruto and Rotich's powerful Kalenjin ethnic group.
The constitution gives Myanmar's 14 states, including seven dominated by a particular ethnic group, their own legislatures.
Seven members of a Pygmy ethnic group living in the nearby forest were also killed, officials said.
In that period, cirrhosis-related deaths increased for every ethnic group and for both men and women.
But the Han Chinese who live there, members of China's predominant ethnic group, generally follow Beijing time.
Sherpas are a Nepalese ethnic group, not just an occupation or a verb, like many people believe.
Asians now surpass blacks as the racial and ethnic group with the highest level of income inequality.
An ideal of a country whose politics center the interests of one ethnic group, the white majority.
He cited the Republic of Ireland's 2017 decision to formally recognize Travellers as an indigenous ethnic group.
The Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group, have long faced discrimination in Myanmar, which denies them citizenship.
To this day, American black Christians attend church at a higher rate than any other ethnic group.
Its most popular title is "The Pathans," Sir Olaf Caroe's 1958 history of the Pashtun ethnic group.
Most recently, the Council has been confronted with mounting atrocities against the Rohingya ethnic group in Myanmar.
Like Mr. Mugabe and Mr. Mnangagwa, Mr. Tsvangirai was a member of the dominant Shona ethnic group.
It is home to the Mongol Buryat ethnic group, and residents describe the city as particularly calm.
There are twenty kids per grade, and it never has any majority race, religion, or ethnic group.
And as things stand, Asian Americans are the quickest growing racial or ethnic group in the country.
The Sidama ethnic group voted in a referendum this week on whether to create Ethiopia's 10th region.
Mr. Zuma remains popular in rural areas, particularly among the Zulu people, South Africa's largest ethnic group.
These people, a Muslim ethnic group, are denied citizenship in Myanmar, and many have had to flee.
A: Latinos are the largest ethnic group in California; they surpassed Caucasians two or three years ago.
Nils and his colleagues must determine whether hateful content is singling out an ethnic group or individuals.
You can come from any background, any ethnic group, any geo geographical region, any religion, any culture.
A man from the Pokot ethnic group illegally grazing cattle on Ol Maisor Ranch in Laikipia, Kenya.
The Oromos, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, make up around a third of the nation's 100 million population.
The order will also designate Jewish people as an ethnic group instead of just a religious one.
The Manchus, an ethnic group from northeast Asia, ruled from the mid-17th century into the 20th.
An estimated 800,000 civilians, mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group, were killed in three months in 1994.
Myanmar says the Rohingya are a made-up ethnic group, that they are illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
President Kenyatta is widely seen as the candidate of the Kikuyu people, the country's largest ethnic group.
Black incomes from 85033 to 2014 fell more for blacks than any other racial or ethnic group.
On Wednesday, Najib brandished more than $3 billion in housing packages for the country's majority ethnic group.
Kurds, members of a stateless ethnic group, have been fighting for autonomy in the region for decades.
Banning an entire racial or ethnic group from entering the US isn't new, and the data shows it.
At one time it was home to 200,000 people, most of them Turkmen, Iraq's third largest ethnic group.
No other Democrat underperforms so badly among any racial or ethnic group in all of the Democratic party. 
Both he and Jawar are from the Oromo ethnic group, Ethiopia's largest, as are most of the protesters.
Abiy is the country's first leader to come from the Oromo group, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia.
The Kurds are an ethnic group whose population is primarily spread across Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Armenia.
Mahamadou Souleymane, a Fulani herder, fled his village last year when militiamen from the Dogon ethnic group attacked.
They celebrate the Han ethnic group to which more than nine out of ten people in China belong.
But this is a story of one animal and one ethnic group: the zebu and the Bara tribe.
"Each ethnic group and city has its own renovation time," says Julio Vlazquez, a resident for 203 years.
Discrimination by Han people against members of their own ethnic group is less well-known, but also common.
They are fleeing systematic violence from the Burmese army and armed mobs of Rakhines, another local ethnic group.
But opponents say Tigrayans, a smaller ethnic group whose powerbase is in the north, are pulling the strings.
The Gujjars of Rajasthan are another ethnic group, many of whose members, no longer wholly rural, are prospering.
The Rohingya are a minority ethnic group in Myanmar's Rakhine State who have inhabited the region for centuries.
Several thousand non-Muslims, including members of the Buddhist Rakhine ethnic group, were also displaced by the unrest.
Some 800,000 people were killed in the Rwandan genocide by Hutu extremist militiamen from country's biggest ethnic group.
His fear is exacerbated because his Afghan ethnic group, the Hazaras, have faced attacks from militants in Afghanistan.
The Hakka are an ethnic group of Han Chinese; grass jelly is a signature dessert of the group.
The president recently revived a divisive campaign that singles out athletes from the country's largest minority ethnic group.
The elders in Nyunzu said a man from another ethnic group, the Luba, had impregnated a Bambote woman.
Nuon Chea was also found guilty of genocide against the Cham ethnic group in Cambodia during that time.
One went west and became the Uighurs, the main ethnic group in large areas of the Xinjiang region.
Choro said there had been an influx of people from the Dassenach ethnic group in Ethiopia's Omo riverlands.
Myanmar has stripped the Rohingya of citizenship and does not consider them to be a distinct ethnic group.
Latinos are the largest ethnic group in the city and the vast majority trace their roots to Mexico.
Both finalists that season were Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group living in the Chinese region of Xinjiang.
What does it take to intern half a million members of one ethnic group in just a year?
After gunmen from a rival ethnic group killed her husband, she fled into the mountains with her children.
The question is this: Can a nation-state favor one ethnic group over others and remain a democracy?
The Rohingya are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group that faces oppression in Myanmar, which denies them citizenship rights.
Similarly, bias against Hispanics is bigotry, not racism, because Hispanics are an ethnic group, not a racial group.
Use the word freely as an adjective (ethnic group), but not as a noun except in direct quotations.
China wants to make the country's Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group, more subservient to the Communist Party.
Most of the newly recruited teachers are Han Chinese, the nation's dominant ethnic group, according to the Times.
Amhara is home to Ethiopia's second largest ethnic group and gives its name to the state language, Amharic.
The hunters belong to a small ethnic group from northern Rakhine called the Daingnet that is mostly Buddhist.
A plurality (923%) are white, but no racial or ethnic group makes up a majority of Muslim American adults.
Most members of China's Uyghur ethnic group follow what religion, which is recognized by limited by China's communist government?
Around 27,0003 Rohingyas—members of a Muslim ethnic group native to Rakhine—have recently, like Syed, fled to Bangladesh.
Also, there was no significant change from 235 in the average math score for any racial or ethnic group.
Demographic changes have played a big part in this: by 2014 Hispanics surpassed whites as California's largest ethnic group.
More than 18,000 Rohingyas, a Muslim ethnic group persecuted by the Buddhist majority, fled across the border to Bangladesh.
Travellers and gypsies have the highest incidence of disability of any ethnic group and the lowest level of education.
As recently as 1996, white voters turned out at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group.
If Kaepernick made disparaging remarks toward gays, minorities or any ethnic group, he would've been fined and/or suspended.
The Oromo are Ethiopia's largest ethnic group and make up at least a third of Ethiopia's 100 million people.
Most of the people directly impacted belong to the Rhoyinga, a Muslim ethnic group based primarily in Western Myanmar.
Much of the tension stems from concerns over the influx of Han Chinese -- China's dominant ethnic group -- into Tibet.
Every single family, every single ethnic group, every single region is either directly or indirectly affected by this disaster.
The Bongos come from a smaller ethnic group, and the appointments were a way of broadening the president's base.
Myanmar has been mired in violence between the country's Buddhist majority and the Rohingya, a Muslim minority ethnic group.
The Oromos are Ethiopia's largest ethnic group and make up around a third of the nation's 100 million population.
"It's a gray area," Fernandez said, explaining that the comment didn't single out a particular ethnic group for insult.
Iran maintains close ties with the Shi'ite Hazaras, Afghanistan's third largest ethnic group, and strongmen of other ethnic minorities.
And that's because we are the exception in history — we are not an ethnic group or religion or language.
Mothers in the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group of West Africa are forbidden to engage their babies in eye contact.
But a few families belonging to a local ethnic group, the Tatars, chose to remain in the ghost town.
The trouble started last year when members of Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromo, began protesting government land policies.
China began rounding up members of the Uighur ethnic group in 2017 and forcing them to attend indoctrination camps.
Furthermore, there are no clear patterns suggesting especially large gains by any racial/ethnic group, compared to the others.
The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the Middle East, split currently between Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
"This morning the government forces were retaliating against innocent Fertit people," he said, referring to a local ethnic group.
Did you consider that political campaigns might use ethnic group targeting to suppress voter participation among certain ethnic groups?
Myanmar does not consider the Rohingya a native ethnic group and calls them "Bengalis", suggesting they belong in Bangladesh.
That blast set off protests by the Hazara minority, a long-oppressed ethnic group whose members are mostly Shiite.
The groom and his father are princes of the Yoruba ethnic group from the Ijebu Kingdom of southwestern Nigeria.
It has said that Croatia is trying to wrest increased political influence for the Croatian ethnic group in Bosnia.
"Some of them are typical degenerate traitors to their ethnic group," said Dilxat Raxit, a Uighur activist in Germany.
In a place with no dominant ethnic group, an emphasis on cultural homogeneity is not just unrealistic — it's harmful.
His immigration policies ensure that Latinos, the nation's second-largest ethnic group, now lean decisively toward the Democratic party.
It may affect people of any age, sex, race or ethnic group, according to the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.
Until quite recently, white Americans could easily see the nation as essentially an extension of their own ethnic group.
Both of Mr. Basuki's opponents are Muslim and Javanese, the dominant ethnic group on the island where Jakarta sits.
But slowly over the last few years I have been moving beyond the comfort of my own ethnic group.
She did not even use the word "Rohingya," adhering to her government's stance that no such ethnic group exists.
Beijing's pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.
The statues represent the Sudeten Germans, or German Bohemians, an ethnic group that used to live in the area.
In 295, ministry researchers published a paper describing a way for scientists to tell one ethnic group from another.
Myanmar authorities do not recognize Rohingya as an indigenous ethnic group, instead regarding them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
Mr. Simon, an Ethiopian who is part of the Nuer ethnic group, went to a hospital in the western town of Gambela recently to visit his nephew, who was injured when members of the Murle ethnic group crossed into Ethiopia from South Sudan to steal cows and kill hundreds of Nuer villagers.
And when we appeal to the broad, working class of America, we're going to appeal more to every ethnic group.
The rebels were led by Mr Déby's cousin and were largely disgruntled members of the president's ethnic group, the Zaghawa.
Abiy is from the Oromo ethnic group, Ethiopia's largest, which led protests that brought about his predecessor's resignation in February.
The Gambela region is home to many people from the Nuer ethnic group, which is largely centered in South Sudan.
Facebook, in particular, has been blamed for allowing hate speech to spread that stoked violence against the Rohingya ethnic group.
A group in Laos says designer MaxMara ripped off designs from a local ethnic group with zero compensation or acknowledgment.
Black women also have the highest student loan debt of any racial or ethnic group, according to the law center.
The Oromo are Ethiopia's largest ethnic group and make up at least a third of the country's 100 million people.
More than one million Gedeo, an ethnic group from southern Ethiopia, were displaced after clashes with rival Gujis in Oromia.
A Eurasian ethnic group of Turkic people, the Uyghurs are native to Xinjiang, and in Turpan they are a majority.
Demography can heighten paranoia and resentment within countries, when one national or ethnic group appears to reproduce faster than another.
"If those Dinkas get you on the road, they will kill you," she says, referring to the president's ethnic group.
If you'll recall, the Rohingya are a stateless Muslim ethnic group that have been subject to extreme discrimination and violence.
To begin with, black men who commit crimes go to jail at a higher rate than any other ethnic group.
She is also slightly lagging Mr Obama's imposing 95% success rate with black voters, the state's third-biggest ethnic group.
They remain the biggest ethnic group in huge swathes of the capital, partly because non-whites are themselves so diverse.
Kiir is a member of the country's majority Dinka population, while Machar is Nuer, the country's second-largest ethnic group.
Nationally, Native Americans have the highest rates of meth use of any ethnic group, according to the Department of Justice.
The brigade, largely made up of Shona youth, moved into Matabeleland and targeted mostly Ndebele, Zimbabwe's second largest ethnic group.
It is evidence that bigotry against black people is more virulent than animus toward any other racial or ethnic group.
The Tigrayan ethnic group makes up about 6 percent of the population but dominates in politics, the military and commerce.
It was a sign of protest of the treatment of the Oromo people, his ethnic group, by Ethiopia's ruling party.
Bulgarov's family home is in the village of Ikon-Khalk, a settlement of the Nogai people, a Turkic ethnic group.
Making up nearly 92 percent of the population, the majority Han ethnic group dominates the country's politics, media, and food.
Some Sputnik stories appeal to those Serbs suspicious of the West, NATO and Albanians - the largest ethnic group in Kosovo.
They are a very small ethnic group in Iraq who practice their own religion; it is neither Christianity nor Islam.
While Asian Americans make the most out of any racial or ethnic group, they also have the biggest income disparity.
So to bring it around to more contemporary slights: Hispanics are the most underrepresented ethnic group in film and television.
A member of each ethnic group is assured of winning a presidential seat, with the chairmanship rotating every eight months.
The relationships that form you are mostly things you didn't choose: your family, hometown, ethnic group, religion, nation and genes.
But I don't see any shows looking for older, experienced people, men or women of any racial or ethnic group.
"For being a Christian is not about adhering to a doctrine, or a temple or an ethnic group," he said.
The group, founded in 1986 ostensibly to defend Uganda's Acholi ethnic group, is believed to have abducted some 70,000 children.
Russian identity is a complex, nuanced thing: Many here identify as much with their ethnic group as their nation state.
But the government's concerns can't justify reprisals against innocents who just happen to be members of the same ethnic group.
In northern Kosovo, above the Ibar River, several thousand Serbs, supported by aid from Belgrade, are the dominant ethnic group.
The United Nations has called the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group denied citizenship in Myanmar, the world's most persecuted minority.
Hanif grew up in a village in Punjab province, the home of the country's historically dominant ethnic group, the Punjabis.
Latinas are especially vulnerable and more likely to be diagnosed with cervical cancer than any other racial or ethnic group.
Asked about the Quds Force, an Iranian paramilitary unit, he has expressed his view of "the Kurds," an ethnic group.
Ironically, the Igbos, who may be Nigeria's most widely dispersed ethnic group, are found in every corner of the country.
For generations, horse-cart drivers have come from the Serer ethnic group, which still maintains strong ties to farming life.
Meanwhile, almost one in five Puerto Ricans across the US has asthma, the highest of any racial or ethnic group.
In Yambio, most people are from the Azande ethnic group, and many say they have been brutalized by the Dinka.
In the last decade, California's demographics have shifted, with Latinos edging out non-Hispanic whites as the biggest ethnic group.
Like the president, he also comes from the northern Burundi province of Ngozi and the same ethnic group, the Hutu.
Security officials say the militants also have ties to militants from the Chinese Uighur ethnic group, who reject Beijing's rule.
You can use it to defend yourself when somebody says something bad about your country, your origins, your ethnic group.
The Kurds are an ethnic group of perhaps 35 million in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey, where about 15 million live.
Also, in the middle of all this, Kiir decided to basically pick a fight with yet another ethnic group, the Equatorians.
The Kurds, an ethnic group spread across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, have never had an independent country of their own.
He said worse things, of course, about Mexicans, an ethnic group that had a small and growing presence in the Ozarks.
The Nigerian painting is a portrait of Adetutu Ademiluyi, a grand-daughter of a traditional ruler from the Yoruba ethnic group.
In 2013, Latinos, who have the highest rates of uninsurance of any ethnic group, comprised 29 percent of the uninsured population.
Bizarrely, many such people are categorised as belonging to the Hui, China's third-largest ethnic group, whose members are mostly Muslim.
Unlike every other age and ethnic group in the United States, the life expectancy for middle-aged white Americans was declining.
Hispanics, who had the largest percentage of uninsured of any ethnic group, saw the smallest reduction in that rate: 35 percent.
Back then, the Dayaks allied themselves with the Malays, a Muslim ethnic group, suggesting that the conflict was not about religion.
Some estimate there are about 4,500 Koglweogo groups, most with at least 20 men, mainly from the majority Mossi ethnic group.
Viewing the second-largest ethnic group, the Ndebele, as disloyal, he used a minor insurrection as an excuse to crush them.
Islam is the only religion in America without a majority ethnic group, which can be a source of friction and infighting.
The Good Samaritan Jwalant Gurung shares a last name with Maya, common to Nepalis who belong to the Gurung ethnic group.
The military has also targeted the Rakhine ethnic group, though some ethnic Rakhine are also implicated in atrocities against the Rohingya.
The Jats, who describe themselves as an ethnic group rather than a caste, take pride in a tradition of martial prowess.
The Kurds are a Middle Eastern ethnic group based mostly in an area encompassing parts of Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria.
Kenyatta is a Kikuyu, an ethnic group that has supplied three of Kenya's four presidents since independence from Britain in 228.
Nkechi Nwabudike, the other head writer, pointed out that the host of "The Other News" was Igbo, another major ethnic group.
That would hit Latinos hard, because under Obamacare, Latinos experienced the largest reduction in the uninsured rate of any ethnic group.
But several victims, expressing surprise, said a few members of the Dinka ethnic group, South Sudan's largest, had accompanied the Murle.
Earlier this year, Rotich's questioning by police provoked an angry reaction among politicians from Ruto and Rotich's powerful Kalenjin ethnic group.
Mr. Kiir belongs to the Dinka ethnic group, the country's largest, while Mr. Machar is a member of the Nuer minority.
It is time for the United States to label ISIS's intentional targeting and destroying of the Yazidi ethnic group as genocide.
The Rohingya, a mostly-Muslim ethnic group who are effectively stateless, are considered the most persecuted people in the world. 5.
Demographers project that Latinos, who make up 31 percent of Arizona's population, could become the state's largest ethnic group by 2020.
In future, it would be good to see a breakdown of obesity rates and associated diseases by country or ethnic group.
The huge growth among Hispanics is notable because they are the fastest growing ethnic group in the Florida electorate right now.
Both the Islamist militant group Ansar Dine and a group representing the Fulani ethnic group have claimed responsibility for the attack.
Even the name Rohingya, which the ethnic group has identified with more vocally in recent years, has been taken from them.
Although the majority of Malaysians are Malay Muslims, the country's second largest ethnic group is Chinese, followed by an Indian population.
Meanwhile, concerns have grown to include wider grievances of the Oromo people, including overall restrictions of expression for the ethnic group.
Young and charismatic, he delivers public statements in multiple languages, including English, to appeal to people beyond his own ethnic group.
The party considers Uighurs, the Turkic-speaking ethnic group native to the nominally autonomous region of Xinjiang, to be dangerous separatists.
Holders of Chinese passports, including members of the majority Han ethnic group, had their phones checked as well, the journalist said.
It's not a very big ethnic group, but members inhabit parts of Burkina Faso—where I went—Ivory Coast, and Ghana.
The singer, Jamala, is from the Tatar ethnic group in Crimea, the peninsula that Russia illegally seized from Ukraine in 2014.
The languages spoken in the high school include English, Arabic, Somali, Spanish and Karen (spoken by an ethnic group from Myanmar).
He is believed to have played a key role in the Gukurahundi massacres of the Ndebele ethnic group in the 1980s.
So why is one ethnic group given more status or more rights (is it because of their $$$) than our First Peoples?
"Disparaging an entire ethnic group and culture like this is bigotry, plain and simple," Chu said in a statement to Insider.
In mixed regions, it was difficult to determine who belonged to what ethnic group and where the border should be drawn.
There is no entity called Iraq to which citizens feel loyalty, in preference to their ethnic group, sect, region or tribe.
The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic group that has faced severe repression in Myanmar, where a Buddhist majority has long ruled.
The diversity of the migrant population ensures that no one ethnic group is large enough to influence elections on its own.
Majority Buddhist Myanmar generally refuses to describe the Muslim Rohingya as an ethnic group and refers to them as Bangladeshi migrants.
Its many caves still showed signs of the Shai people of the Ga-Adangbe ethnic group, some of Ghana's earliest inhabitants.
There, young girls called Kayayei from the Hausa ethnic group in the northern parts of West Africa wait to be hired.
Xinjiang is home to the predominately Muslim Uyghurs, who are ethnically distinct from the country's majority ethnic group, the Han Chinese.
To be targeted might mean simply being born in a certain geographic region or being part of a certain ethnic group.
"Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average IQ of any ethnic group for which there are reliable data," noted one 2005 paper.
But officials at El Feel said a separate group of guards, from the Tebu ethnic group, were preventing a restart there.
Conte's interior minister has called for a census of the country's Roma people, an ethnic group, in order to expel them.
And over time, candidates in Chicago have counted on a sizable number of voters from their own race or ethnic group.
Hardly a month goes by without a movie being challenged because a plotline offends one religion, ethnic group, caste, or another.
Meanwhile the Welayta, the second-largest ethnic group in the SNNPR, have taken to the streets demanding their own vote on statehood.
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — China has been detaining members of the Uighur ethnic group, placing an estimated 1 million in internment camps and prisons.
As a member of the seminomadic Fulani ethnic group, Moumouni was used to going days without seeing anyone else but other herders.
In 27, Latinos overtook whites as the most populous ethnic group and will account for nearly half of California's population by 220.
In November, the government arrested five men simply for printing a 2016 calendar making references to the Rohingya as an ethnic group.
Many identify themselves as both French and as something else, either the original nationality of their parents or a broader ethnic group.
White non-Hispanics are the only ethnic group that leans Republican, according to a study of party affiliation by the Pew center.
Belete Mola, vice president of a new party to represent the large Amhara ethnic group, said the government was playing with fire.
A taxi driver belonging to China's main ethnic group, the Han, says that there are now hardly any ethnic Koreans driving cabs.
They did not see themselves as a single ethnic group or people, the kind that could provide the 'groundwork' for a nation.
Her people, the Yazidi, are an ethnic group targeted by ISIS for their eclectic religious beliefs and relative lack of military might.
He had turned against the president after witnessing massacres of the Ndebele people, the country's second-largest ethnic group, in the 1980s.
The brunt of the policy would fall on the most vulnerable, and the effect would be to degrade an entire ethnic group.
World Rohingya Day is a salient reminder that members of the ethnic group continue to live lives permeated by fear and marginalization.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first U.S. federal law which blocked the mass migration of a particular ethnic group.
The 30-year-old was born in the States but raised in Hong Kong, where Indians form the fourth largest ethnic group.
Travellers—Ireland's only indigenous ethnic group—have existed for centuries, though there is no academic consensus on when the community became distinct.
The book tells the story of Kaidu, a young member of the Dao ethnic group, the latest in a series of occupiers.
Rohingya leaders said they wanted Myanmar to recognize them as an ethnic group with the right to Myanmar citizenship before they return.
That was the single largest share of any racial or ethnic group, far greater than their 20143 percent share of the population.
He added that he does not believe that the Yugurs need to define their ethnic group by their language or nomadic lifestyle.
Thousands of people, mostly members of Mr. Machar's ethnic group, the Nuer, are concentrated in rows of tents, easy targets for artillery.
In addition to Latino voters, Asian Americans, as the nation's fastest growing ethnic group, also find immigration to be an important issue.
The Madhesi, an ethnic group in the country's south with close cultural ties to India, were demanding revisions to the new Constitution.
The majority-Muslim Hui ethnic group, who are scattered around China, also fear that the government will extend its crackdown to them.
They are an ethnic group distinct from both Turks and Arabs, but they largely observe the same Sunni Islam as their neighbors.
Nearly 80% of Asian adults in America were born elsewhere, and Asians are the nation's fastest growing major racial and ethnic group.
Indeed, white Millennials are the only racial/ethnic group where a majority (57%) agrees that spending on border security should be increased.
The bigger picture: Many Rohingya, a majority-Muslim ethnic group often described as "the world's most persecuted minority," now live in limbo.
The omission disappointed rights advocates who had hoped he would specifically denounce the military's campaign of violence against the Muslim ethnic group.
The protests pit the country's largest ethnic group, the Oromo, against the government's Addis Ababa and Surrounding Oromia Special Zone Development Plan.
They worry that locking down an entire province and persecuting an entire ethnic group will only instill long-lasting resentment among Uighurs.
Amhara, northwest of the capital, is home to Ethiopia's second-largest ethnic group and gives its name to the state language, Amharic.
The Chinese government has been conducting what it describes as a large-scale antiterrorism campaign in Xinjiang, targeting the Uighur ethnic group.
He was accused of orchestrating the crackdown in the 1980s in which thousands of members of the Ndebele ethnic group were killed.
At the same time, Dr. Locke challenged African-Americans to integrate into the larger society and accept those outside their ethnic group.
"The Rakhine burned their houses down," she said, referring to civilians from the Buddhist ethnic group that gives Rakhine State its name.
"The Rakhine burned their houses down," she said, referring to civilians from the Buddhist ethnic group that gives the state its name.
"I don't buy into the narrative that any one ethnic group owns admissions to these schools," he said in a television interview.
The military's ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group, is popular, as are social controls against journalists and minorities.
Asian-Americans are now the most economically divided racial or ethnic group in the country, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
Demonstrations against the targeting of the Rohingya ethnic group, a persecuted Muslim minority, took place on Monday outside Australia's Parliament in Canberra.
Often called the world's largest ethnic group without a homeland, some 30 million Kurds are spread across Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Often described as the world's largest ethnic group without a distinct state, more than 30 million Kurds are spread across five countries.
At least 63,500 members of the Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group, fled to Bangladesh from western Myanmar to escape renewed fighting.
Maria Fang-od Oggay, above, thought to be 100 years old, uses the traditional tattooing methods of her ethnic group, the Kalinga.
An escalating armed insurgency has broken out among Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority, even as support for the Muslim ethnic group builds internationally.
I've learned what it is like to hear someone talking about your ethnic group, thinking none of you are in the room.
The Oromo people are Ethiopia's largest ethnic group but have been marginalized for decades and are often in conflict with the government.
The altercation took place Tuesday afternoon as protesters assembled outside the Turkish Embassy to criticize Turkey's treatment of the Kurdish ethnic group.
It was ravaged by the genocide of its Tutsi ethnic group in 1994, in which over half a million people were killed.
Rohingya leaders say they want Myanmar to recognize them as an ethnic group with the right to Myanmar citizenship before they return.
Although the Chinese make up the largest ethnic group in Singapore, the city has its own Chinatown, located in its Outram district.
Tribal governments' special political status is not that of a racial or ethnic group, nor are we associations, affiliations or interest groups.
And he was a member of Kenya's Luo ethnic group, whereas the nascent uprising was led mostly by members of the Kikuyu.
" The chancellor last year said, "I just don't buy into the narrative that any one ethnic group owns admission to these schools.
The Oromo are the country's largest ethnic group and are being oppressed in response to their peaceful protests in favor of political reforms.
Tens of thousands of Rohingya people, a Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar, fled to Bangladesh last year after facing genocide in the country.
On Friday, a group of Twa pygmies attacked the Luba, a Bantu ethnic group, near Kalemi, in Tanganyika province, the aid workers said.
Her search for a personal history that resonated with her inner reality led her to South Sulawesi, home to the Bugis ethnic group.
For Trumpists it is an expression of "ethnic democracy," the nationalist notion that government benefits should be reserved for the dominant ethnic group.
There were two interrogators, he said, one Han Chinese — China's largest ethnic group — and the other Uighur, both fluent in the Uighur language.
RFA had recently reported on the mass internment of Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic group that makes up nearly half of Xinjiang's 22m people.
Stretched across a mountainous region that spans Syria, Iran, Turkey, and Iraq, the Kurds are the world's largest ethnic group without a state.
The former care worker said she did not come from an ethnic group that practiced FGM, and no motive was given in court.
But not being part of the majority Han Chinese ethnic group meant it was very difficult to be promoted past a certain level.
According to a new report by the Pew Research Center, Hispanics are also the youngest racial or ethnic group in the United States.
In December 2013, fighting broke out months after President Salva Kiir, from the Dinka ethnic group, sacked vice president Riek Machar, a Nuer.
Despite being the single largest ethnic group in the country, Oromos do not have the political and economic influence commensurate with their numbers.
Some members of the Dogon ethnic group have taken up arms against the Fulani, whom they claim have been radicalized by jihadist groups.
The previous regime had been dominated by the Amhara, the second-largest ethnic group (the Eritreans broke away to form a new state).
In the future, with any luck, we can make comedies in which the jokes aren't made at the expense of an ethnic group.
Denial As of July, the protests have been spreading into the Amhara region, home to the second largest ethnic group in the country.
Mohib Ullah said Rohingya leaders wanted Myanmar to recognize them as an ethnic group with the right to Myanmar citizenship before they return.
But they are quieter about their equally successful campaign to repatriate Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group from Xinjiang, in China's far west.
We should be far beyond tired, racist stereotypes and targeting an ethnic group for humiliation and objectification on the basis of their race.
Myanmar objects to the term Rohingya, saying the Muslims of Rakhine State are not a distinct ethnic group but illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
A wave of hysteria aimed at German-Americans swept the nation as it struggled to assimilate what was then its largest ethnic group.
She introduced the villagers to traditional dyes from her own ethnic group, and is constantly looking for new natural ingredients to source locally.
The ethnic group has been a thorn in Ankara's side for decades, having been blamed for violence as part of its separatist push.
Abiy is from the same ruling coalition, but comes from the larger Oromo ethnic group, which was at the forefront of the protests.
The Oromo, who are the country's largest ethnic group, are opposed to the government's Addis Ababa and Surrounding Oromia Special Zone Development Plan.
A fourth-generation German citizen who is black may want to identify with his ethnic group—as many Latino Americans do, for example.
Pashtuns are Pakistan's second largest ethnic group, and many have moved to the country's big cities to escape violence along the Afghan border.
Among those protesting are Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromos, who make up at least a third of the country's 100 million people.
Mr. Kiir belongs to the Dinka ethnic group, the country's largest, while Mr. Machar is a Nuer, believed to be the second largest.
Despite being Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, comprising roughly one third of the country's 153 million population, Abiye is Ethiopia's first Oromo prime minister.
Jat was targeted because she is a Muslim Rohingya, described by the UN as the most heavily persecuted ethnic group in the world.
In economics, educational achievement, social status, in those measurable areas, this ethnic group has a large portion of its population at the bottom.
Elsewhere, in the western region of Xinjiang, a growing campaign of repression against the predominantly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group has provoked international condemnation.
Within every racial and ethnic group, including whites, the gap increased between those who make the most and those who make the least.
A military crackdown against the Rohingya ethnic group has driven hundreds of thousands of men, women and children from their homes in Myanmar.
This marks a significant uptick compared to 2017, when Pakistani migrants were the 13th-largest ethnic group arriving from the North African country.
The lesson that the world's complacency sends to other countries is that this is an ideal time to eradicate a vexing ethnic group.
Mr. Doye, who is part of the Lébou ethnic group, showed them a tarp covering some rocks that he'd used in a ceremony.
Both were designed to limit the immigration of one particular ethnic group so those immigrants did not take jobs from the American population.
Last year, the Council was confronted with wide-scale atrocities against the Rohingya ethnic group in Myanmar, but has done little in response.
According to the 2016 census, Vietnamese is still the predominant ethnic group in Cabramatta, making up 33 percent of its roughly 22,000 residents.
Meet Maria Fang-od Oggay, thought to be 100 years old, who uses the traditional tattooing methods of her ethnic group, the Kalinga.
Majority Buddhist Myanmar rejects the term Rohingya and does not recognize them as citizens nor as an ethnic group in its own right.
The Kurds began moving towards semi-autonomy since a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam, ending what some called genocide against the ethnic group.
His family, members of the Tajik ethnic group, the country's second largest, lived in a sparsely populated village on the outskirts of Kunduz.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi testified that members of the Muslim ethnic group still in Myanmar were being helped, but many are desperate.
Targets of the PC 360 attacks included activists and other supporters of the Oromos, a regionalized ethnic group clashing with Ethiopia's Somali population.
The goal was to free a group of Uighurs, members of a Muslim ethnic group from western China, who had been detained there.
The Amhara, dominant before 1991, and the Oromo, the largest ethnic group in the country, complained they were being treated as subordinate minorities.
EUROPE: Tens of thousands of stateless Roma - an ethnic group with origins in India - are thought to live in central and eastern Europe.
The Kurds began moving towards semi-autonomy after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, ending what some called genocide against the ethnic group.
But he concluded that Jewish citizens have been treated as a racial or ethnic group entitled to the law&aposs protection against employment discrimination.
Members of the Nepalese ethnic group have evolved over generations to withstand the oxygen-deprived atmosphere high in the Himalayas, a new study found.
Photo: AP Facebook announced Wednesday that it would temporarily stop letting advertisers exclude users from seeing their ads based on race and ethnic group.
There were also unresolved disputes over local boundaries - which some sides felt Kiir had redrawn to benefit his Dinka ethnic group, the report added.
South Sudan plunged into civil war two years later after Kiir, a Dinka, fired Machar, from the Nuer ethnic group, from the vice presidency.
"No region or ethnic group can be left behind," he insisted, echoing an egalitarian view to which the Communist Party claims to be wedded.
Tens of thousands of Chinese men have undocumented marriages with women from Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos, often of the same (non-Han) ethnic group.
The country does not recognize the stateless Rohingya as an ethnic group with its own identity and considers them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
Mexican Judaism is not terribly common, comprising a small ethnic group of about 40,000 to 50,000 people, most of whom live in Mexico City.
Race: The imprisonment rate for sentenced black Americans fell by 31% over the 10 years — the largest decrease of any racial or ethnic group.
The growth of Asian-Australian as an ethnic group is an evolution in motion that has not translated to the outside world quite yet.
The Kurds began moving toward semi-autonomy after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, ending what some called genocide against the ethnic group.
Many of the rivalries between fighters from the Tuareg minority ethnic group date back centuries and are linked to control of desert trade routes.
For African Americans, the numbers are even more disheartening: Just 41.7% own their own homes — the lowest homeownership ratio of any other ethnic group.
Former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, from the Wolayta ethnic group, was forced to step down last year after three years of sporadic, deadly protests.
Indians become the 44th Tribe of Kenya The Kenyan government decided to recognize the South Asian community as their "44th tribe," or ethnic group.
Things are even tougher when the children in need of adoption come from a different ethnic group from the people who want to adopt.
But during her time in office they became the largest ethnic group, surpassing whites and helping to make the state a majority minority population.
Pashteen, a charismatic speaker and a defender of the Pashtun ethnic group, has been thrust into the spotlight as leader of this new movement.
Several bigwigs from Abiy's ethnic group, the Oromo, snubbed the inauguration and instead visited a memorial to Oromo victims of the emperor's military campaigns.
Others defended his decision, with one social media user asserting that his actions were typical of the way Visayans -- his ethnic group -- joked around.
More widely, the clampdown has seen Muslim architecture and culture destroyed in what is a devastating and under-reported onslaught against an ethnic group.
Mr. Jammeh is a member of the Jola ethnic group, and some Mandinka and Fula people began to blame the Jolas for the attack.
An army of noneThe Kurds, a majority-Muslim ethnic group with no official state, consist of 25-30 million people spanning the Middle East.
This region produces most of the nation's wealth and is home to the Oromo, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group — and one of its most marginalized.
Turkey has a large Uyghur population and the Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim, ethnic group has strong ties to Turkey and other central Asian countries.
"Because of this," he said, rubbing the soft tribal scars on his forehead that mark him as a member of the Nuer ethnic group.
The UN and the US say they believe the violence against the Rohingya, which are members of a minority ethnic group, constitutes ethnic cleansing.
It is not a job that the soft-spoken Barrow - a member of the Fula ethnic group from rural eastern Gambia - had sought out.
The US ended up settling on fighters from the Kurdish ethnic group, based in northern Syria near the Turkish border, as their key allies.
Abiy is Ethiopia's first prime minister from the Oromo ethnic group, which makes up about a third of the African nation's 100 million people.
Abiy is Ethiopia's first prime mister from the country's biggest ethnic group, the Oromo, who make up one third of its 100 million people.
Sculptors from Zimbabwe's Shona ethnic group use basic tools to carve deeply expressive art into heavy blocks of stone, that often weigh several tonnes.
Attackers believed to belong to the Fulani ethnic group raided the rival Dogon village of Sobane Da, in central Mali, between Sunday and Monday.
Among issues Russian trolls are seeking to exploit are gun control, ethnic group rivalries, tensions between police and local communities, and abortion, sources said.
ILEMI TRIANGLE, Kenya (Reuters) - First, the scouts saw a footprint, then a suspected spy from a rival ethnic group, scuttling off into the bush.
"To be targeted might mean simply being born in a certain geographic region or being part of a certain ethnic group," Google's Beer writes.
"I just don't buy into the narrative that any one ethnic group owns admission to these schools," he said on Fox 216 New York.
It found that the indicators were consistently worse for the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group, than for other populations living in the same areas.
Queen Zola Mafu, from Swaziland, is the sixth wife of the Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini, the traditional leader of South Africa's largest ethnic group.
Tree worship can fall prey to political exploitation, especially when a national or ethnic group claims an immemorial attachment to a patch of land.
Those who oppose the idea of Asian Kenyans becoming an ethnic group say they can exert influence on society without indulging in identity politics.
But most of my ethnic group, I believe, understands that Trump is bad for the Jews, whatever tax bracket we happen to be in.
The fighting has mostly pitted Kiir's Dinkas, the dominant ethnic group estimated to be roughly a third of the population, against Machar's Nuer tribe.
But he inadvertently fanned criticism by stating that his use of the term applied more to "Asian people" than to any other ethnic group.
Amhara is home to Ethiopia's second-largest ethnic group of the same name, and their native tongue, Amharic, is also the country's official language.
Predominantly Buddhist Myanmar does not recognize the mostly Muslim Rohingya as an ethnic group with its own identity but as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
Although their case for independence is rarely made, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a state of their own.
Amhara is home to Ethiopia's second largest ethnic group of the same name and their native tongue, Amharic, is also the country's official language.
Herdsmen involved in the communal violence are mainly Muslims from the Fulani ethnic group, while members of the settled farming communities are mostly Christian.
The Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre is accusing Max Mara of unethically stealing its designs from a local ethnic group in Laos called the Oma.
Most villagers, who are members of the Lisu ethnic group and are deeply religious, also zip across every Sunday for mass services at nearby churches.
Clashes between semi-nomadic herders, mostly of the Fulani ethnic group, and settled farmers in central states have killed around 100 people in recent weeks.
While women from Ghana's largest ethnic group, the Akan, are said to have grounds for divorce if they are not sexually satisfied by their husband.
Thousands of Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group in largely Buddhist Asean-member Myanmar, facing sometimes extreme persecution in their home country, were fleeing by sea.
As The New York Times has reported, Chinese authorities subject Xinjiang's Uighur population, a culturally Muslim ethnic group, to a slew of different surveillance practices.
But political rivals accuse him of monopolizing power, while many non-Pashtuns believe he deliberately favors his own ethnic group at the expense of others.
Enwonwu belonged to the Igbo ethnic group, the largest in the southeastern region of Nigeria, which had tried to secede under the name of Biafra.
Enwonwu belonged to the Igbo ethnic group, the largest in the southeastern region of Nigeria that had tried to secede under the name of Biafra.
We are men and women who represent every American ethnic group, every one of the world’s religions and every form of political commitment.
The Oromo People's Democratic Organisation, which represents the largest ethnic group in the ruling coalition, was seen for years as a puppet of the TPLF.
The UN investigated a massacre of Fulani villagers in central Mali in which perhaps 160 people were killed by militias from the Dogon ethnic group.
The Oromo People's Democratic Organisation (OPDO), which represents the largest ethnic group in the coalition, was seen for years as a puppet of the TPLF.
Pariah trod a similarly improbable path: the word means "drummer" in Tamil, becoming the name of a downtrodden ethnic group which often performed ceremonial drumming.
Latinos recently became the second-largest ethnic group in the city, accounting for 212% of the population, overtaking African-Americans (21910%) and rivalling whites (226%).
Sixty percent of West Kalimantan's 4.4m people are Muslim, but Mr Cornelis is one of 1.5m Christians, most of them from the Dayak ethnic group.
He was far less tolerant of the Ndebele, a minority ethnic group who continued to back his long-standing rival for national leadership, Joshua Nkomo.
Congolese migrants and officials have said dozens of people were killed during an operation by Angolan security forces and an allied ethnic group this month.
The Uyghurs are largely Muslims, who are the dominant ethnic group in Xinjiang, a large autonomous region that borders Russia, Mongolia, central and south Asia.
He was convicted in 21 of trying to exterminate the Ixil ethnic group, a Mayan Indian community whose villages were wiped out by his forces.
But coming home he had a new worry: that his five hectares of farmland might have been occupied by members of a rival ethnic group.
Ismail: It still is very ambiguous—it's an unknown ethnicity called Bravanese, an ethnic group that moved to Somalia and then Kenya and now everywhere.
Buhari's party rejects criticism that his administration is soft-peddling justice for the herders, who belong to the same Fulani ethnic group as the president.
But Ali Bongo, who succeeded his father when he died, bucked tradition in 2016 by choosing Issoze-Ngondet, who comes from a different ethnic group.
Protests at the agency's Cairo headquarters – including one man setting himself on fire – have been led by Oromos, the single biggest ethnic group in Ethiopia.
The Chinese Exclusion Act, signed in 1882, was considered the first federal law to exclude a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States.
The Sidama ethnic group is due to vote on Wednesday in a referendum on self-determination, a demand of at least eight other ethnic groups.
They identified most of the attackers as members of the Murle, a South Sudanese ethnic group encompassing several factions but generally known for raiding cattle.
The violence this month has largely affected members of the Rohingya ethnic group, a stateless Muslim minority with roughly one million members in Rakhine State.
For the latter, it's possible that some Chinese citizens who are ethnically Han [the dominant ethnic group in China] or Tibetan are, in fact, Muslims.
Sinosphere There are fewer than 15,000 Yugurs in China, making the ethnic group one of the smallest of the 56 officially recognized by the government.
The Katong Laksa is a Peranakan (a Singaporean ethnic group) fish soup that's made with rice vermicelli noodles in a rich and spicy coconut broth.
The Rohingya trace their history here as far back as the eighth century and it's also home to the Rakhine, a predominantly Buddhist ethnic group.
Rebels from the Rwandophone Hutu ethnic group were suspected of killing at least seven civilians last month in an attack targeting the town's Nande residents.
According to preliminary data, he was a Uighur, a Turkic ethnic group, living in Eastern and Central Asia, the local news website K-News reported.
SEVEN YEARS ago separatists from the Tuareg ethnic group and jihadists allied to al-Qaeda took over most of the sparsely populated north of Mali.
His father was a Jewish refugee from Rhodes known as Nissim the Handsome, and his mother was a Congolese woman from the Bemba ethnic group.
The Kurds, an ethnic group distinct from the Arabs, have endured a history of discrimination in countries where they have always lived as a minority.
The situation with the Uygurs, a predominantly Islamic ethnic group in the Xinjiang region, has had a significant impact on how Muslims are perceived here.
Sundado, 45, a Hawassa-based real estate broker from the Wolaita ethnic group said, 50 Sidama people destroyed his home in 2018 with no warning.
The Dothraki seem far enough away from any "real world" analog that it's not quite clear which actual human ethnic group is being maligned here.
It has heavy viewership in areas where members of the Pashtun ethnic group are most numerous, including most of the areas dominated by the Taliban.
Fufu originated among the Akan, the ethnic group that includes the Ashanti, Akwapim and Fanti people of what is today southern Ghana and Ivory Coast.
Candidates are elected directly, and a member of each ethnic group is assured of winning a presidential seat, with the chairmanship rotating every eight months.
"We fight for all Indonesians regardless of their ethnicity, ethnic group, religious group, whatever their race," Mr. Prabowo said Friday after filing his campaign paperwork.
The Rohingya are a largely Muslim ethnic group who mainly live in Rakhine State in western Myanmar, where they face severe restrictions on basic rights.
Protests at the agency's Cairo headquarters - including one man setting himself on fire - have been led by Oromos, the single biggest ethnic group in Ethiopia.
They are his fellow activists in a pressure group opposed to what it saw as the domination of the Oromo ethnic group in the capital.
It is harder to face the problems that others might see in my own ethnic group — casual divorce, casual sex, casual abandonment of the elderly.
Ms. Fang-od, also spelled Whang-od, is a ritual tattoo artist of the Butbut tribe of the Kalinga ethnic group in the northern Philippines.
Their tenuous situation has been aggravated in recent months by open warfare between Myanmar's military and another ethnic group native to the state, the Rakhine.
Massoud, from Afghanistan's Tajik community, framed his firing as a move by Ghani, a Pashtun from the country's largest ethnic group, to push others away.
Native Americans have always maintained an outsize presence in the military, serving on a per-capita basis in higher numbers than any other ethnic group.
All of us, everywhere, can be doing more to provide opportunities to the children of each racial and ethnic group and to all of them.
The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group, are not recognized as citizens in their native Myanmar even though they have lived there for hundreds of years.
Mr. Mnangagwa was the security head when a North Korean-trained force massacred thousands of civilians in a campaign against the rival Ndebele ethnic group.
Guides in the Himalayas are often called "sherpas," though not all are part of the ethnic group of Sherpa, from which many take their surname.
Both children were Dalit, an ethnic group in India that makes up just over 16% of the population, according to the country's most-recent census.
Clinton Showdown Is Already Getting Ugly Though Latinos are now the largest ethnic group in California, the state Republican Party is just 222 percent Latino.

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