There are challenges still, I still feel like a minority, and I remain concerned about the small numbers of minorities in science in the U.S. As before, it still feels like I am swimming against the tide, but also, as before, meeting the challenges is fun.
Chris Chapman, conflict prevention officer at Minority Rights International, said: "We are extremely concerned about the situation faced by minorities in Sri Lanka's conflict area.
On Kosovo, Mr. Kostunica said he had stressed in his talks with Mr. Annan that Yugoslavia was most concerned about the protection of minority rights in a Kosovo dominated by ethnic Albanians.
Now, many officials are standing by Mr. Mugabe because they believe Western governments are only concerned about Zimbabwe's white minority, which has been threatened by Mr. Mugabe's plan to give back to the black majority land stolen under colonial rule.
Mr. Nussbaumer, who has been looking at the same minority-representation numbers, independently of the Columbia clinic, has become increasingly concerned about the large percentage of minority applicants shut out of law schools.
In response, the US state department says it is concerned about human rights violations in ethnic minority areas, including restrictions and discrimination imposed against the Rohingya.
"It's a metaphor about minorities, obviously".
Could they be among the minority who are more concerned about rapists than worried about those attacked?
They also believe the West is less concerned about democracy than about protecting the white minority in Zimbabwe, which has opposed the government's sometimes violent efforts to return to the black majority land stolen by British settlers.
If minority politicians were truly concerned about the welfare of the communities they represent, they would not sacrifice the health of their constituents for short-term economic and political gains.
The majority leader, Representative Dick Armey of Texas, said of the Democratic minority leader, "Dick Gephardt is more concerned about his own personal political fortunes than he is about passing legislation that would help real Americans struggling with real problems".
