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How to use the word ethnicity in a Sentence?

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Does this allow us to do the things that the census is intended to do – voting rights, civil rights, allocation of congressional districts, race and ethnicity is central to the work of folks who are in those spaces.

Mark Hugo Lopez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The cuisine is very unique. This Easter , D’Silva can have one dish in Singapore, but This Easter , D’Silva have five different ways of preparing it, and no one is wrong because every ethnicity puts in their own story and ingredients.

Restaurant Kin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When a synagogue is firebombed, or somebody in the community is being attacked or harassed, it is important for others in that community, no matter what their religion or ethnicity, to say ‘this does not represent us’.

Oren Segal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No one should face harassment or violence due to their background, ethnicity or heritage.

James Wimbush

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So the message to universities seems to be: Cultivate and champion diversity without discriminating by race and ethnicity.

Government Justin Gest

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The key is to understand that Asian American identity is a political stance, being Asian American is to take a stand against racism and a stand for solidarity among people of Asian ethnicity and with other racialized people in the United States and abroad.

Daryl Maeda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you let everybody choose what they want to do, it looks like women and minority group members will spend less time on the worksite than men and white employees, people seem to like the workplace less when they are in a distinct minority. And it's not just about gender, race and ethnicity. It also shows up with respect to political persuasion, and religious beliefs.

Steven Davis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is no place for hate in our community. No one should be victimized because of Jeremy Wayne Jones race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion, these types of crimes are reprehensible and my administration will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law to hold those who perpetrate hate accountable.

Verber Salazar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Anything that creates the impression that the Department of Justice applies different standards based on race or ethnicity harms The Justice Department and our efforts, and it harms the public, i do believe that The China Initiative was driven by genuine national security concerns. But I'm also mindful that The Justice Department must maintain the trust of the people whom we serve.

Matthew Olsen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The sessions referenced were created to provide support to our diverse RA community. Specifically, the BIPOC support group was created at the request of students, all our support sessions are completely optional and open to all RAs, regardless of race or ethnicity, to discuss different perspectives and experiences. All the support sessions are organized with the assistance of staff from WCU’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) department.

Communications Benny Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The advantage of diversity, whether it’s gender or race or ethnicity or even professional work, whatever the diversity represents, it gives people who don’t otherwise think there’s opportunity, it aspires them to believe there might be.

Sonia Sotomayor

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Elizabeth Warren is a thug and a liar. She got into college lying about her ethnicity and continued to lie, she tried to use Native Americans to get to where she is. This thug wants to add 4 seats to the U.S. Supreme Court and 4 seats to the U.S. Senate: Enough seats until they control everything. That’s totalitarianism.

Scott Applewhite -RRB- Levin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We don't mind where you came from, what's your religion, what's your ethnicity, gender does not matter. You find two thirds of the population in Future Prowess Islamic Foundation are girls.

Zannah Mustapha

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The road to get to this point, has never been just about my race, ethnicity, culture or any of the immutable or unchangeable demographics. The main ingredients are critically more powerful than that.I was born and raised on military bases across the US and even Stuttgart, Germany. I am the daughter of an amazing officer’s wife and kindergarten teacher and social worker whose family was a mix of Haitian and Native American. And I’m the daughter of a military combat pilot who came from the sticks of east Texas.My parents taught me that our skin color and hair texture will always identify us to people who choose only to see that. But, we must work hard to ensure our success reflects our individual gifts, diversity of thought and experience.

Harris Faulkner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm sure they don't want to hear from anyone of any race or ethnicity that doesn't really want to go along with them in lockstep.

David Malkin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I already have processsed it, so I don't really have anything to say over here, and also regarding racism, this is a very sensitive topic, but I think that this is definitely something that definitely shouldn't happen regardless of nationality, ethnicity.

Masahiro Tanaka

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We must also make it abundantly clear that Utah is a place that welcomes everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or any other background, it is who we are, and it may be easy to lose sight of that during a knee-jerk debate.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Many schools have diversity curriculum, and we need to make sure that weight is part of that diversity teaching, absolutely, we need to be talking about race and ethnicity and sexual orientation and religion, but we also need to make sure that weight diversity is covered as well.

Rebecca Puhl

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This nation was built on an idea, the only nation in the world built on an idea. Every other nation is built on ethnicity, geography, religion, etcetera. We were built on an idea, the idea of liberty, an opportunity for all.

Beau Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The unity we saw, regardless of religion or ethnicity, it speaks volumes for the people in Palestine, they are starting to see their voices being heard, and change is around the corner.

Adil Abbuthalha

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Lady Justice in this community is blind, it does not matter your ethnicity, it does not matter the side of the tracks you come from, it does not matter your wealth. You will be treated as an individual with value.

Fulton County

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Synergy is addition and multiplication. Ethnicity is subtraction and division.

CLIFFORD VILLALON

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3 years ago

The Legislative Correspondents Association (LCA), made up of dozens of reporters and editors from various news outlets who cover the state Capitol in Albany, sent a letter Monday requesting Cuomo allow reporters to ask at least one follow-up question; diversify which reporters are selected for questions by taking into account race, ethnicity, gender and age; and alert news outlets at least two hours in advance of his public appearances.

Times Union

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Martin Luther King Jr.Why taught us that racial injustice in United States started with the arrival of colonizers on Native land. The violence these settlers used first against Indigenous peoples, then against Black slaves, was predicated on White supremacist beliefs. White supremacy is upheld by false origin myths about the United States, ignored by whitewashing brutal anti-Native and anti-Black policies, and sustained by stereotyped, inaccurate portrayals of Native people and people of color in popular culture, to create a just world, all people of every race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender expression, and age, must stand together and tell truthful stories about our past and hopeful stories about our future.

Crystal Echo Hawk

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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