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1989 in radio

November 13 – London Greek Radio, one of the United Kingdom's first all-ethnic radio stations, begins broadcasting.

Absolut Warhola

The film follows the filmmakers as they travel through eastern Slovakia to interview Warhol's surviving relatives, ethnic-Ruthenians living near the Polish border in Miková, and to visit the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce.

Achievement gap in the United States

Others, such as Alfie Kohn, observe it may merely penalize those who do not score as well as the most educated ethnic and income groups.

Archi people

The Archi (аршишттиб in Archi, арчинцы in Russian) are an ethnic group who live in eight villages in Southern Dagestan, Russia.

Bauchi State

There are cultural similarities in the people's language, occupational practices, festivals, dress and there is a high degree of ethnic interaction especially in marriage and economic existence.

Bezovica, Vojnik

Similar names based on the same root are common in Slovenian ethnic territory (e.g., Basovizza in Italy and Bezgovica) as well as in other Slavic areas (e.g., Bazje in Croatia, Bzová in the Czech Republic, etc.

Carolinian

Carolinian people, an Austronesian ethnic group which originates from the Caroline Islands

Chambri people

Chambri (previously spelled Tchambuli) are an ethnic group in the Chambri Lakes region in the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea.

Chinese intelligence operations in the United States

In the prominent case targeting Wen Ho Lee, Dr. Lee's lawyers say the scientist had been unfairly singled out by government investigators because of his ethnic background.

Chitwan Valley

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the main part of the Chitwan Valley was under forest and sparsely populated by ethnic groups, such as the Tharu, Danuwar, Darai and Majhi people who had acquired some resistance against the infectious malaria raging the region.

Cyril Collard

Among the music videos he directed were those of French-Algerian band Carte de Séjour, whose lead singer Rachid Taha is one of the most famous rock-ethnic musicians in France today.

Death of Aristotelis Goumas

The ethnic Greek mayor of Himarë, Vasil Bollano, spoke of a "premeditated crime" as the suspects had been "provoking the victim for days".

Eyo Ita

The major politicians of the time resorted to work within their ethnic and regional base as a foundation to gain political power, this led to regional politics and concentration of power in regional and federal ministers, who were largely nominated by the party and the regional House of Assemblies.

Flora Martirosian

President Serzh Sargsyan stated that she was "truly national", then continued "Audiences, which she collected in homeland and in the Diaspora, talk about the ethnic routes of her songs, which she has earned as a distinctive singer and Armenian artist".

Franca Arena

She was offered the Order of the British Empire for services to migrants, but refused the honour; in 1980 she accepted the Order of Australia for services to ethnic groups.

Franz Schurmann

The service created New America Media in 1996, a multimedia ethnic news agency and a coalition of ethnic media.

Gangte people

Other clans or ethnic people in this group are the Thadou (Kuki), Hmar, Lushai (Mizo), Paite, Simte, Vaiphei, and Zou.

Genetic studies on Sri Lankan Tamils

Furthermore, a study looking at genetic variation of the FUT2 gene in the Sri Lankan Tamil and Sinhalese population, found similar genetic backgrounds for both ethnic groups, with little genetic flow from other neighbouring Asian population groups.

Gervais Rufyikiri

Rufyikiri is an ethnic Hutu member of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD).

Gocha Vetriakov

A native of Tbilisi and of Russian ethnic descent, Gocha Vetriakov graduated from the Vladivostok maritime college in Russia and then joined the ranks of the Coast Guard of Georgia.

Han Fu

Hanfu, the traditional clothing of the Han Chinese ethnic group

Hibernia

Another occurrence is in familial Hibernian fever or TRAPS (tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome), a periodic fever first described in 1982 in a family of Irish and Scottish descent, but found in all ethnic groups.

Ibore

Ibore is an ancient city located in northern part of Esan an ethnic group in Edo state, Nigeria.

Itak

Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), a Sri Lankan political party which represents the Sri Lankan Tamil ethnic minority

Jingpho language

The ethnic Jingpho (or Kachin) are the primary speakers of Jingpho language, numbering approximately 900,000 speakers.

Lawngtlai district

The inhabitants of the district are mainly the ethnic groups of tribals like Lai and Chakma, who are among the minor tribal communities of Mizoram.

Moldova–Romania relations

The Communist government (2001–2009), a vocal advocate of a distinct Moldovan ethnic group, deemed multiple citizenship a threat to Moldovan statehood.

Moxi Town

Moxi lies at roughly 1,600 meters above sea level, and the population are mainly ethnic Han Chinese, Yi and Tibetan with other minorities.

Music of Sierra Leone

The largest ethnic group in Sierra Leone (2008) is that of the Mel-speaking Temne people, 35% of the population.

Mwinilunga

The Chilunda-speaking Kanongesha-Lunda people are the largest ethnic group, and are related to the Chibemba-speaking Kazembe-Lunda of Luapula Province.

North Dumfries

The ethnic makeup of the township is 98.5% White, and 1.5% visible minorities, of which the largest groups are Black (0.4%), South Asian and Latin American (0.3% each).

October 2013 Burma bombings

Small bomb blasts occurred frequently under previous military regime, and were normally blamed on armed ethnic groups, although many believed the authorities were behind the explosions.

Panchthar District

Panchthar's majority population is that of Kirantis (Limbu, Rais) and other ethnic groups and hill castes.

Parliament of Fiji Islands

The remaining 46 are reserved for Fiji's ethnic communities and are elected from communal electoral rolls: 23 Fijians, 19 Indo-Fijians, 1 Rotuman, and 3 "General electors" (Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities).

San Benedetto dei Marsi

The ancient Marruvium was the chief city of the Italic tribe of the Marsi; Marruvii or Marrubii is another form of the name of the Marsi, and was used by Virgil as an ethnic appellation ("Marruvia de gente", Aen. vii. 750).

Scotch-Irish

The Ulster Scots people, an ethnic group in Ulster, Ireland who trace their roots to settlers from Scotland and northern England

Search for Common Ground

Featuring six children, one from each of Armenian, Christian, Druze, Palestinian, Shiite, and Sunni backgrounds, the show calls attention to the interactions between the different ethnic groups and shows different means of nonviolent conflict resolution.

Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

The Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival is a week long film festival founded in 2006 by filmmaker and artist Harish Saluja and held every May during Asian American Heritage Month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to show mostly recent films and music by artists with Asian ethnic origins, such as from Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines.

Slavery in Bhutan

Outside Bhutan proper, various ethnic groups of the Assam Duars including the Mechi were subject to taxation and slaving such that entire villages were abandoned when the British examined the region in 1865.

South Sudan Liberation Movement

Groups of Western Nuer and Dinka from Tonj, Rumbek and Yirol took part, leading to a peace agreement in March 1999 to end the ethnic fighting.

Southeastern Nigeria

Before Nigeria became a country through British colonial government, Southeastern Nigeria was a home to many ethnic groups such as the Igbo, Ijaw, Ibibio, Efik, Annang, Ekoi, etc.

Sunil Kumar Ahuja

His most recent work, first published in the 2005 issue of Science, involves the ethnic group-specific role of CCR5 haplotype and CCL3L1 gene copy number on the progression of HIV to AIDS.

Sydney gang rapes

Ethnic community group leaders, including Keysar Trad of the Lebanese Muslim Association, complained that Carr was smearing the entire Lebanese Muslim community with the crimes of a few of its members, and that his public comments would stir up ethnic hatred.

Tambuco

Tambuco has a repertoire ranging from structuralist percussion music to a wide range of ethnic drum music and avant garde.

Tarakan riot

Minister of Interior Gamawan Fauzi tried to calm the masses by reminding them that the riot was originally an ordinary criminal incident, which accidentally involved two different ethnic groups.

The Last Drive

Alex Kalofolias and Thanos Amorginos created The Earthbound in 1998, a band with a completely different orientation around ethnic/Latin/desert rock.

Timeline of Serer history

Sonko-Godwin, Patience, "Ethnic groups of the Senegambia Region, Sunrise Publishers Ltd (2003), ISBN 9983-9900-6-2

Tjerita Si Tjonat

He contrasts this with a discussion written by Tirto Adhi Soerjo regarding the cultural roles in the Indies, in which individuals had to wear clothing in accordance to their ethnic identity, for which failure to abide meant punishment at the hands of police.

Turkowice, Lublin Voivodeship

In March 1944, Turkowice was one of hundreds of locales attacked by Polish partisans in acts of ethnic cleansing against the ethnic Ukrainian population.

Wuji

Wuji (people) (勿吉人), pronounced in ancient times as "Moji or "Merjie", an ancient ethnic group in Manchuria


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