They are justly proud of the ethnic diversity of China.

Over the past decade, the European Union has grown more ethnically diverse.

India is a good place to do such an experiment in, because we have all the ethnic diversities, all the you know, the genetic diversity, all the racial diversities, and also all the socio economic diversities.

The idea is to represent Colombia through its people because ethnic diversity in Colombia is incredible.

But ethnic and cultural diversity is not all that has changed the face of European football.

There is more ethnic diversity in, say, Malaysia than in the entire EU.

The composition of the Afghan National Army today mirrors the ethnic and regional diversity of Afghanistan.

When France won the World Cup in 1998, the French liked to point out the ethnic diversity of their team.

If ethnic diversity is more and more common in national sides, it is even more marked in clubs.

Welcoming the constitution of the national Government, and noting the importance of it being representative of the ethnic diversity of the country and ensuring also the adequate participation of women,

One important explanation is the much larger racial heterogeneity to be found in the US relative to the more homogeneous Continental Western Europe.

Welfare is relatively plentiful in the overwhelmingly white states of the North and Northwest (Oregon and Minnesota, to cite two examples) and in some states in New England (such as Vermont).

Noting the importance of the national Government being representative of the ethnic diversity of the country and ensuring also the full and equal participation of women,

Both examples show that Europe, like the US, is vulnerable to the politics of division, as our societies become more ethnically diverse.

The Supreme Court, however, ruled that the program was constitutional, citing a compelling state interest in racial diversity.

A shared identity has developed, defined by a national language, ethnic diversity, religious pluralism within a majority Muslim population, and a history of colonialism and rebellion against it.

SECAD's mandate is to deal with the binomial human rights and education , and to include the field of diversity the debate about the issues of gender, race, ethnicity, disabilities and sexual orientation.

As a result, Turkey no longer considers a federalized Iraq a threat to its security, as long as each federal unit maintains a measure of ethnic diversity.

Continental Europe is becoming, and will become, more ethnically mixed as more newcomers from Eastern Europe and the developing world arrive.

But civilized life, especially in countries with great ethnic and religious diversity, would soon break down if everyone felt free to say anything they liked to anyone.

Lehman Brightman s refusal to accept complacency, as well as his generation's quest for dignity through direct action and change through confrontation, holds lessons for the present and future, particularly for communities of color and for people of the Third World.

Myanmar s Ethnic Powder Keg

And it can turn some of its short term problems, such as the pressures arising from ethnic and linguistic diversity (the state is now 37 Hispanic and 13 Asian) into long term strengths in the global economy.

Comments by French and francophone Rue 89 readers (mostly anonymous) run the gamut, with some arguing that the death of languages is inevitable, and in some ways necessary, in ethnically diverse societies others that it amounts to nothing less than cultural genocide.

What s Wrong with Ethnic Profiling?

The infringement of indigenous populations' human rights within the context of internal conflicts deserves the special attention of the General Assembly, since it threatens the survival of these peoples and endangers the lives not only of individuals but also of their communities, as well as the ethnic and cultural diversity of the countries concerned.

A diversity of...everything

Inexorably, racial prejudice creeps in.

And the consequences of the ethnic cleansing have not been remedied to date.

ASEAN as a whole, with a population of 580 million, is not significantly bigger than the EU (with 500 million), yet it encompasses an infinitely greater degree of ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity.

The Price of Biodiversity

Marine biodiversity

The Biodiversity Bargain

Ethnic profiling is illegal in Europe.

The only way its goals will be met is through genocide.

Stronger criticisms called Miyamoto's ethnicity into question

The goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity are the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of the components of biological diversity, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources.

For something profound is changing in Europe, slowly, painfully, but surely. If ethnic diversity is more and more common in national sides, it is even more marked in clubs.

(h) Convention on Biological Diversity

Convention on Biological Diversity

Biodiversity assessments

(h) Convention on Biological Diversity

Convention on Biological Diversity

(h) Convention on Biological Diversity

(h) Convention on Biological Diversity