The Ethnic PhenomenonA gem of a book for scholars in race and ethnic relations and sociobiology. . . . Van den Berghe analyzes various forms that race and ethnic relations have displayed including colonial empires, slavery, middleman minorities, caste systems, and assimilation. The causes and consequences of these systems are brilliantly teased out employing historical and crosscultural examples. Libraries with any work at all on race and ethnic relations or sociobiology should acquire this book. Choice |
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Page 186
... bilingual to facilitate commu- nication , but bilingualism is typically quite limited ( both in terms of per- centages of population who were bilingual and in terms of degree of competence of individuals in their second language ) ...
... bilingual to facilitate commu- nication , but bilingualism is typically quite limited ( both in terms of per- centages of population who were bilingual and in terms of degree of competence of individuals in their second language ) ...
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... bilingual that it makes little sense to ask what their home language is . ( The 1947 language census gave 18 % of the Belgian population as bilingual , but this did not necessarily mean that as many were fluent in both languages ...
... bilingual that it makes little sense to ask what their home language is . ( The 1947 language census gave 18 % of the Belgian population as bilingual , but this did not necessarily mean that as many were fluent in both languages ...
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... bilingual , they conclude - rightly for their purposes that the home language is completely redundant . They thus start using the language of the host country even at home , unless expressly for- bidden or punished for doing so . If ...
... bilingual , they conclude - rightly for their purposes that the home language is completely redundant . They thus start using the language of the host country even at home , unless expressly for- bidden or punished for doing so . If ...
Contents
Theories and Ideologies | 1 |
The Biology of Nepotism | 15 |
The Ecology | 37 |
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19th century acculturation African Afrikaners American animals apartheid Arab Ashkenazim Asians assimilation Bambuti Bantu basic became become behavior Belgian Belgium Berghe bilingual biological blacks British capitalist chattel slavery clans class and ethnicity colonial common complex conflict conquered conquest consociational consociational democracies consociationalism countries created culture democracy descent developed distinct dominant E. O. Wilson ecological economic elite especially ethnic groups ethnic relations European example exploitation extended favor Flemish French Fulani genes genetic hapu Hausa hierarchy human Hutu ideology immigrants inclusive fitness Indian individual Israel Jews kin selection kinship Kuper labor language linguistic live male million minority multiethnic nation native nepotism organization pariah phenotypically plantation pluralism political polygyny population production Québec race racial racism relationship relatively religious reproductive ruling class Rwanda situation slaves social societies sociobiology South Africa status stigma success Swazi territory trade traditional tropical Tuzi typically United urban villages women
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Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka No preview available - 1996 |