At the conference he sensed that attention was concentrated on the problem of minorities and that this took precedence over the central issue, the transfer of power.
In particular, the Czechoslovak state was to be more ethnically homogeneous: the problem of minorities was to be resolved by large-scale expulsions of Germans and Hungarians from the country.
This issue is often described as the problem of "minorities within minorities" (Eisenberg and Spinner-Halev 2005; Green 1994), but it can also be a problem of majorities (e.g. women) within minorities.
July 10 , 1875Mayesville, South Carolina May 18 , 1955Daytona Beach, Florida Mary McLeod Bethune, (born July 10 , 1875 Mayesville, S.C., U.S. died May 18 , 1955 Daytona Beach, Fla.) American educator who was active nationally in African American affairs and was a special adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the problems of minority groups.
A final objection (and one that has received the most attention in recent scholarly debates about multiculturalism) argues that extending protections to minority groups may come at the price of reinforcing oppression of vulnerable members of those groups what some have called the problem of "internal minorities" or "minorities within minorities" (Green 1994, Eisenberg and Spinner-Halev 2005).
During much of the time that Mr. van der Stoel was monitoring Iraq, he was also in charge of dealing with the problems of minorities living in Europe.
Maybe the banlieues of today could be best understood as the Algeria of the 19th century: the legacy of French apartheid must be borne in mind when considering the problems of minorities.
In his 30 years as a parish priest at Old St Paul's, Edinburgh, in England and the US, Holloway understood the problems of minorities not from religious texts but from personal experience.
On Monday, Colin L. Powell, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff during the war in the Persian Gulf, talked almost exclusively about domestic affairs, including the ills afflicting urban areas, the need to pay more attention to the education of the nation's children and the problems of minorities.
EAST MEADOW, N.Y., July 24 — The newly installed leaders of Nassau County's struggling health care agency on Monday reported a turnaround in its gloomy finances and embraced a new strategy of focusing on the health problems of minorities and the poor as a core mission.
