Sentence examples for ethnic attrition from inspiring English sources

Most of this ethnic attrition occurs among the offspring of parents or grandparents married to non-Mexicans, usually non-Hispanic whites.

And, given the centuries of ethnic attrition, religious abrasion, and bloodily contested borders that make up the history of the Continent, do Europeans realize how blessed they are in the hops and skips that now allow them, for the cost of a T-shirt, to escape without censure from one country to the next?

James Brooke (NYT) CANADA: SEPARATISTS SUE A Quebec separatist group has filed a complaint against a leading magazine for an article charging that "ethnic cleansing occurs by attrition" in Quebec City.

Erdoğan's renewed war of attrition against the ethnic Kurdish population of south-east Turkey, in the name of fighting the autonomy-seeking militants of the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), has also gone largely unchallenged.

Secondly, as previously mentioned, the LS includes only a very small Black and Minority Ethnic group sample with high attrition rates for many minority ethnic groups.

For example, Finkelhor et al. [ 14] reported significantly higher attrition rates for ethnic minorities in a follow-up of a nationally representative sample of maltreated children in the United States.

Higher rates of attrition occurred in youth, ethnic minorities, and people on lower income and reporting poor health.

Attrition rates differed according to ethnic group.

In addition, any differences in attrition that exist along racial or ethnic lines are likely to vary between nations given inter-country differences in cultural diversity and immigration patterns.

Language attrition has also been hastened by war, ethnic cleansing and compulsory schooling in a national tongue.

Likewise, an opt-in approach limits the 'generalisability' of the research, with opt-in less likely amongst those groups with higher rates of study attrition (i.e. males, socioeconomically deprived and ethnic groups).