The authority tried it out on eight focus groups of riders from different income, ethnic and language groups, and on those with disabilities, and the response was uniformly negative.
The second generation, especially, were determined to be as good Americans as those who had arrived before them.And finally the immigrants were divided, where the working classes of Europe had been united within their own ethnic and language groups.
In a country of some 120m people, split into more than 200 ethnic and language groups and divided between Muslims, Christians and animists, the scope for such mischief is huge.
This result suggests that stimulus questions which are suitable for different languages are required because the evaluation differs from ethnic or language groups.
Based on these results, it can be assumed that the characteristic of nasalance may vary depending not only on ethnic or language groups but also on the result of surgical operations.
Indeed, India's 1.24-billion-strong population is one of the world's most diverse, with 700 ethnic and language groups and possibly many more, depending on how they are counted.
Using both newly generated and previously published genetic data from 571 people representing 73 ethnic and language groups, 71 from India and two from Pakistan (which prior to Indian independence from British rule in 1947 was considered part of India), the team analyzed the genetic differences among the subjects using several powerful statistical methods.
No differences were found in the relationship continuity among the ethnic and language groups.
This cross-sectional survey was designed to examine patient experiences in PHC across three ethnic and language groups.
Fifty-two organizations were randomly selected as clusters from the list and stratified based on the four ethnic and language groups.
Members of ethnic minority language groups can be doubly vulnerable through poor living conditions and exclusion from access to English-based media and health messages (41).
