Maybe, but here is a skeptical thought: Our parties are not ideologically programmatic; They are "ethnocultural" coalitions. From Wordnik.com. [PrawfsBlawg] Reference
(for instance) Ronald Formisano and Paul O. Kleppner, "ethnocultural" parties between 1877 and. From Wordnik.com. [PrawfsBlawg] Reference
It is an ethnocultural community — an interlacing of ethnicity and culture. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » 2008’s Crises and the Return of the Nation-State] Reference
At that luncheon we had about six hundred leaders of the ethnocultural communities from right across Canada. From Wordnik.com. [Multiculturalism, National Unity and the Canadian Economy] Reference
The ethnocultural communities largely support the policy but they think it is a political ploy to get a few votes. From Wordnik.com. [Multiculturalism, National Unity and the Canadian Economy] Reference
The right is trying very had to identify Obama with whatever implacable foe is available to any ethnocultural group around. From Wordnik.com. [History Rears Up To Spit In Your Face | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Overlapping and weaving together these different traditions is the shared ethnocultural belief in spirits and the palpable nearness of the spirit world. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy Like Us] Reference
The KMT's two decade struggle to enforce a strict, centralized ethnocultural nationalism in China also framed Taiwan's early experience with the Nationalists. From Wordnik.com. [Hartzell and Lin lose on appeal] Reference
The particularistic character of this nation is precisely why ethnocultural dissolution brought about by unprecedented mass immigration both illegal and legal is a legitimate issue. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession:] Reference
"As long as the government continues to suppress legitimate concerns on the part of ethnocultural groups in such a manner, the prospects for escalation appear to exceed those for accommodation,". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
All this to say that infant mortality is definitely racialized, but it has nothing to do with whether certain ethnocultural groups are more prone to higher infant mortality rates, but rather to do with racism. From Wordnik.com. [The US’s Poor Performance In Infant Mortality Is Not A Measurement Error] Reference
Thus women's groups, disability rights groups, ethnocultural groups, linguistic minorities, religious communities and other equality seeking groups fought and succeeded in having their identity and rights recognized in the Charter. From Wordnik.com. [the charter at 25] Reference
Yam in most parts of the tropical world is more costly (mainly because of high labour inputs and relatively low yields) than most of the competing carbohydrate foods, but in spite of this continues to be highly favoured, at least partly for traditional and ethnocultural reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 37] Reference
Canada's World is not an organization, but a collaboration of business, diaspora, ethnocultural and civil society leaders, youth, scholars, retired diplomats and senior public servants who are active in international programming, research, education and public policy development. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
These reasonably well-defined categories have “attenuated” to include transnational linguistic and religious communities, assimilated ethnic emigrants, and even “putative ethnocultural or country-defined diasporas” p. 3, where he finally mentions the Japanese and cultural/regional/functional communties.7. From Wordnik.com. [井の中の蛙 » Japanese Diaspora at ASPAC » Print] Reference
McDonald's, so often castigated as the quintessential global corporate behemoth stamping out local food variety and in general eliminating ethnocultural specificity, is in fact, taken up and transformed by both the East Asian consumers and the corporation into local institutions that reflect the unique socio-political context. From Wordnik.com. [November 2003] Reference
This ethnocultural divide has persisted and has led to turbulent politics. From Wordnik.com. [Jamaica - Full Feed] Reference
If he is wrong, we still have a problem, because he has implicitly slandered ethnocultural groups. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Bennett Law in Wisconsin produced a bruising ethnocultural battle in Wisconsin in 1890, which the Democrats won. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
During his time as City Councillor, he served as an advisor to the Mayor regarding ethnocultural community relations. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]
These projects include seniors 'clubs and centres, ethnocultural organizations, service clubs and Aboriginal organizations. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
"We encourage our members to be judicious in their outreach to politicians, because gone are the days of naive ethnocultural communities," she says. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
The Quebec bureau should be made up of a balance of male and female members and reflect Quebec's "ethnocultural diversity," says the report by ombudsman Raymonde Saint-Germain. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
At OMNI, she led the network's expansion from one multilingual and multicultural station into five that reach more than 40 ethnocultural communities in major markets across the country. From Wordnik.com. [Broadcaster : Headline News]
Another possibility, which another friend raised with me over burritos, is that the supposed tensions between left and right forms of nationalist sentiment track ethnocultural splits within the population. From Wordnik.com. [The American Scene] Reference
Historians have explored the ethnocultural foundations of the party, along the line that ethnic and religious groups set the moral standards for their members, who then carried those standards into politics. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Once in office, they did not make much policy even on these ethnocultural issues, preferring instead to engage in the safer game of distributive politics - subsidies for local business, government jobs for supporters, etc. From Wordnik.com. [PrawfsBlawg] Reference
"While we are breaking new ground with Rogers OMNI Alberta we are also providing a long-overdue service by offering community-focused programming in 20 languages to ethnocultural audiences we feel will be highly receptive.". From Wordnik.com. [Mediacaster - Headline News] Reference
If our parties have become nothing more than a return to Gilded Age-style ethnocultural anxieties, however, then it is hard to see how we are any closer to Responsible Party Government so beloved by the political scientists. From Wordnik.com. [PrawfsBlawg] Reference
But Liberal MP Maria Minna - a prominent member of Toronto's Italian-Canadian community - accused Kenney of a racial double-standard when it comes to offering formal apologies to Canadian ethnocultural groups with historical grievances. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
Perhaps this policy-rhetoric gap is just a replay of Gilded Age ethnocultural paranoia: A vote for McCain is perceived as racist by many of Obama's supporters, while a vote for Obama is perceived as expressing scorn for Fundamentalists by McCain's. From Wordnik.com. [PrawfsBlawg] Reference
"They're grasping for relevance and for ways to shore up their base and unfortunately it would seem that sometimes they are trying to play on anxieties that may exist in some quarters about ethnocultural diversity and I think that is really regrettable.". From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
"Each OMNI will have a strong focus on local news with a balance of local, regional and national perspectives as well as the opportunity to share ethnocultural issues and stories throughout our evolving national television system - something we've never been able to offer before.". From Wordnik.com. [Mediacaster - Headline News] Reference
Ethnoculture invites you to share, discover, and learn about stories, testimonials, and activism concerning the experiences of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders, transsexuals, transvestites, and queers from ethnocultural communities in Montreal. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
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