Sentence examples for question of ethnicity from inspiring English sources

The question of ethnicity is particularly contentious.

His parents were of mainly Nigerian descent, but he says he's often mistaken for a Jamaican or a Ghanaian, and because he prides himself on being hard to figure out, he can be playfully evasive on the question of ethnicity.

Vassili Berezhkov, a retired KGB colonel and historian of the secret services and the NKVD (the precursor of the KGB), said: "The question of ethnicity did not have any importance either in the revolution or the story of the NKVD.

The same with dealing with the question of ethnicity and race".

Many members, players and leaders of the club were Jewish, but the question of ethnicity or religion was not even a real issue for the club.

However, in a review of the state of modern scholarship, Amy-Jill Levine writes that the entire question of ethnicity is "fraught with difficulty," and that "beyond recognizing that 'Jesus was Jewish', rarely does the scholarship address what being 'Jewish' means".

The question of ethnicity-specific cutoffs will be discussed in more detail below.

Yet the sensitivity to questions of ethnicity in China, especially with regard to the shǎoshù mínzú 少数民族 ("ethnic / national minorities"), e.g., Uyghurs, Tibetans, and scores of others, caused Zhang to take umbrage over something that the Vice President never intended.I leave it to Mr Mair and the Chinese-speaking commenters to discuss the ins and outs of mínzú.

Partly it's troubled relationships, partly it's questions of ethnicity and identity, he says.

From history we know, however, that questions of ethnicity are best treated responsibly.

In France, as elsewhere in Europe, the Roma issue is linked to difficult questions of ethnicity, race, social exclusion and political gamesmanship.