Israel became a preponderantly Jewish state, thereby gaining this veneer of democracy, only by ethnically cleansing indigenous Palestinians from their homes in 1948 and preventing to this day these refugees and their descendants from exercising their right of return to their homes as guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The study population was located within eight economically depressed and ethnically marginalized (indigenous) periurban zones southeast and adjacent to the city of Cochabamba (located in the Cochabamba Department of Bolivia).
The Nigeria Blindness Survey was the largest, national population-based survey of eye disease in an ethnically diverse, indigenous black African population, giving precise estimates of the prevalence of glaucoma.
It is 47 years since Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, thus extending the process (begun in 1948) of ethnically cleansing the indigenous population and then installing settlers.
The remainder of the population includes a substantial Chinese population as well as Europeans and Pacific Islanders, including persons from Rotuma, a volcanic island >400 km north of Fiji (it is politically part of Fiji, but its people are ethnically distinct from indigenous Fijians) (13 ).
With the country so sharply divided (51% of its people are indigenous, 44% ethnically Indian), it may be quixotic, despite the new president's sentiments, to think it can really become an equal-rights democracy that makes no distinctions between its citizens.
The watershed is inhabited by socially and ethnically diverse forest-dependent indigenous communities such as the Chepang and Tamang [14].
The watershed is inhabited by socially and ethnically diverse forest-dependent indigenous communities such as the Chepang and Tamang [ 14].
In most of Africa, ethnicity was politicized when the British turned the ethnic group into a unit of local administration, which they termed "indirect rule". Every bit of the colony came to be defined as an ethnic homeland, where an ethnic authority enforced an ethnically defined customary law that conferred privileges on those deemed indigenous at the expense of non-indigenous minorities.
Amerindians who live in the Andean highlands speak Quechua and Aymara and are ethnically distinct from the diverse indigenous groups who live on the eastern side of the Andes and in the tropical lowlands adjacent to the Amazon basin.
