With his Jewish and Hungarian background and a face dominated by a prominent nose, he went on to play a mixed bag of "ethnic" parts.
The PISA shock matters more.The school authorities in Neukölln, a multi-ethnic part of Berlin, deployed guards to 13 schools in December 2007, not so much to enforce good behaviour as to ward off outside gangs.
In a 1994 interview, Lucian Pintilie expanded on the issues central to the film by drawing a parallel with his own childhood in a multi-ethnic part of Bessarabia.
Kern and Hammerstein, Williams emphasizes, created a work that was greater than its ethnic and cultural parts.
Other multi-ethnic parts of Europe frequently found war memorials equally contentious.
Mr. Wen also rejected suggestions that the massive Chinese military presence in Tibet and ethnic Tibetan parts of China — parts of which are under a virtual lockdown this month, the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against the Beijing government — indicated that China's policies toward Tibet were flawed.
They are moved along by a network of traffickers across borders and ethnic communities, part of a web that spreads across the Balkans and into Western Europe.
But it is conceivable that they were people from a totally different racial and ethnic group – part of a North African/ Levantine/European people who lived around much of the Mediterranean Basin.
Turkey has been locked in an intractable political fight with Cyprus since 1974, when it invaded the island to prevent a proposed union with Greece and set up a rival government in the ethnic Turkish part of Cyprus that only it recognizes.
Last month, the NYT had extensive coverage of the unrest in the ethnic Tibetan parts of Sichuan.
Spurred by violent springtime protests in Tibet and other ethnic Tibetan parts of China, China's government had agreed to revive a stop-start process of confidence-building talks with the Dalai Lama's envoys.
