Sentence examples for ethnic connection from inspiring English sources

It has always been that way here, where many Pakistanis have a tribal and ethnic connection to Afghanistan.

"It is wrong to look for an ethnic connection, a Chechen connection," he said, insisting that a settling of scores between gangsters was also plausible.

There is ample evidence that the Chechen separatists have been aided and guided by Islamic fundamentalists, including Arab militants, having no ethnic connection with Chechens.

"While making Americans more aware of our culture, we also hope to give the Mongols who live here a better sense of their roots," said Dr. Sanj Altan, president of the Mongol-American Cultural AssocintiOcean County OceaN.Jounty, N.J. "We are trying to invigorate our ethnic connection".

Similarly, I feel an ethnic connection to issues involving the Middle East.

It was not just political connections, but family and ethnic connections.

Fragrant Uighur cuisine is informed in equal parts by Uighur's roots in western China and its ethnic connections to Turkey.

"If the F.B.I. is charged with knowing whether there are elements of such groups present and operating within the United States, it cannot ignore those ethnic connections, any more than it would ignore the identification of a bank robber as a short white male when trying to solve the bank robbery".

Somewhere in the American psyche, the support of the mother country buoys even those Americans who have no ethnic or cultural connection to Britain whatsoever.

Kerr (2008) identifies links between US-based co-ethnic communities and industrial performance in home countries; however, Agrawal et al. (2008) find that physical location is up to four times more important for knowledge diffusion than co-ethnic connections.

Because the great majority of peoples of north Africa and the Middle East are Arabs, their ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural connections provide a degree of solidarity within and across national boundaries.