Posts Tagged ‘ethnic’

Eliminating Grammy categories hurts Latin, ethnic music 

Grammy voters didn’t ruffle many feathers with their nominations this year. Anyone with ears expected Adele to turn up in all three top categories — Song, Record and Album. And, certainly, she deserved that esteemed troika.

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Diplomat calls Indian ethnic group ‘dark’, ‘dirty’

A U.S. diplomat’s remarks calling Indian Tamils “dark” and “dirty” has national leaders calling for her to be expelled from the country.

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Educators busted for ethnic jokes

One assistant principal told “yo mama” jokes, a teacher called rowdy students the “Taliban” and another educator tried to pass a racial slur off as humor, Department of Education investigative reports show.

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Ethnic Uzbeks in squalid camps fear returning home (AP)

Ethnic Uzbek women and children sit in a tent near Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in outskirts southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP – Ethnic Uzbeks sheltering in squalid tent camps say they don’t have enough food or clean water but are terrified of going back to live alongside those they hold responsible for days of shootings, arson and sexual assaults.


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Fresh ethnic violence erupts in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

Clothes pegs hang on a rope in the foreground as an Uzbeks' residence burns after being torched by Kyrgyz men, in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, June 13, 2010. In Jalal-Abad on Sunday, thousands of Kyrgyz men brandishing sticks, metal bars and hunting rifles gathered at the city's horse racing track and marched out to burn Uzbek property while frightened police stayed away.  (AP Photo/Zarip Toroyev)AP – Sporadic gunfire has continued through the night in southern Kyrgyzstan as the Central Asian nation’s worst ethnic violence in decades shows no signs of abating.


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75,000 Uzbeks flee ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP **  Ethnic Uzbeks residences burn after being torched by Kyrgyz men, in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, June 13, 2010. In Jalal-Abad on Sunday, thousands of Kyrgyz men brandishing sticks, metals bars and hunting rifles gathered at the city's horse racing track and marched out to burn Uzbek property while frightened police stayed away.  (AP Photo/Zarip Toroyev)AP – Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages and slaughtered their residents Sunday in the worst ethnic rioting this Central Asian nation has seen in 20 years, sending more than 75,000 Uzbeks fleeing across the border into Uzbekistan.


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Violent ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan leave 100-plus dead, more than 1,000 hurt

Ethnic tension has boiled over into horrific violence in Kyrgyzstan, as more than 1,000 people have been wounded in rioting, with 100 or more killed.

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