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Minorities are more likely than white patients to rate their health care as fair or poor, a view that is particularly true among Chinese-Americans, blacks born in Africa and Vietnamese-Americans. Researchers have long stressed that improving patients' perception of their care is important to improving outcomes. That's because negative experiences can lead to less time spent with a physician and poor communications between doctor and patient. To get a more detailed view of the differing perceptions that patients have, researchers at Harvard University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation surveyed 4,334 adults last year. The researchers asked patients such questions...

Projecting their own experience onto the rest of the world, Americans generally belittle the role of ethnic nationalism in politics. After all, in the United States people of varying ethnic origins live cheek by jowl in relative peace. Within two or three generations of immigration, their ethnic identities are attenuated by cultural assimilation and intermarriage. Surely, things cannot be so different elsewhere. Americans also find ethnonationalism discomfiting both intellectually and morally. Social scientists go to great lengths to demonstrate that it is a product not of nature but of culture, often deliberately constructed. And ethicists scorn value systems based on...

Amnesty International today issued an urgent action calling for the protection of several Kenyan human rights defenders and activists who have received serious death threats. The group, which includes six men and three women -- some of whom are prominent members of human rights organizations -- have received a number of anonymous threats in the form of SMS messages, phone calls and emails. They are now taking precautions for their safety, such as moving house and not making any public statements. The threats include accusations that they are ”traitors” to their ethnicity. All but one of the activists are of...

Next year's United States presidential election will be the first one since 1952 to have neither an incumbent nor a current or former vice-president on either of the two main tickets -- unless Al Gore suddenly decides to run again. As of now, national polls place New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as the favourite candidate for Democrats, followed by Illinois Senator Barack Obama and former North Carolina senator John Edwards. On the Republican side, actor and former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson is almost even with former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, with Arizona Senator John McCain and former...

As the title says, I am a cultural bigot: ..."a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices"; Guess what folks...we are all prejudiced bigots. We make decisions every day based on a prejudice against or for certain foods, gas stations, sport teams, etc. Prejudice is not a bad word. I'm sick of hearing the race-baiters use it in everything they promote. They, also, are prejudice in their words and actions. Everyone is. That needed to be said, however, it was not the point of this article. It was only stated to define the word...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 30 (UPI) -- Sweden's National Democrat party plans to open pre-schools for only ethnic Swedish children, starting in Uppsala and Soderalje. Within the next few weeks, the political party will start submitting applications to various local councils to open the Swedes-only schools, the online Swedish newspaper The Local reported Monday. "It is very important that we can build up a safe and Swedish environment for our children. They can have the best possible start in life by growing up with Swedish culture," party leader Marc Abramsson said about why Sweden needs racially pure pre-schools.

Iraq's minorities include Muslims, Christians and Jews Religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq are facing unprecedented levels of violence, according to a study by a human rights organisation.The plight of minorities is being ignored amid the constant news of carnage in Iraq, Minority Rights Group International says. Its report claims that some groups risk being eradicated from their homeland. Iraqi minority members have been abducted, tortured or killed, or forced to assimilate. The study says some communities - many of whom have lived in Iraq for more than 2,000 years - are suffering terrible violence as a result of...

Here's the latest news on my campaign to represent you Sometimes the Truth Makes Waves Dear Friend of This Campaign, My presidential bid continues to stir dust in every direction! That's good, I think. On Thursday, I made a statement sure to offend many of the most powerful people in Washington. I called for the disbanding of the Black, the Asian Pacific-American, and the Hispanic Congressional Caucuses. This was a risky decision for me, but I had to tell the truth--even if I lost some friends. I think it's high time we fought harder for Ronald Reagan's vision of a...

The idea of taking a DNA test first came to me in August, after I read a Time magazine article entitled "Diving into the Gene Pool." The author, Carolina A. Miranda describes herself as an "olive-skinned Latina," but a DNA analysis test uncovered connections to places likesuch as Poland and Mozambique. Intrigued, I decided to order my own analysis kit from DNA Tribes, a company that promised to trace my ancestry back to ancient times. I didn't expect my experience to be anything like Miranda's. For starters, I was fairly certain of my ethnic heritage: Irish on my mother's side,...

How [radical] Islam makes one into a fascist, whether you are Arab, black, etc. The broader view of the deep & wide reality of Islamofascism What do the Arab Muslim massacre in NYC WTC, The Pakistani Muslim bombing in London, the Arab Muslim bombing in Madrid, an Indonesian attack on Australians in Bali, an Arab Muslim racist attack on an ordinary Jew in Paris, Arabs' onslaught in the genocide campaign in Sudan, WW2's Bosnian Muslims attacking Christian Serbs, Jordanian Arab murderer: Zarqawi that seperated (Nazi style) between Shiite & Sunni kids on a bus, Arab slave masters in Mauritania, a...

The average American college graduate's literacy in English declined significantly over the past decade, according to results of a nationwide test released yesterday. When the test was last administered, in 1992, 40 percent of the nation's college graduates scored at the proficient level, meaning that they were able to read lengthy, complex English texts and draw complicated inferences. But on the 2003 test, only 31 percent of the graduates demonstrated those high-level skills. There were 26.4 million college graduates. The college graduates who in 2003 failed to demonstrate proficiency included 53 percent who scored at the intermediate level and 14...

"The New White Flight" was the title of an eye-opening article in the November 20th issue of the Wall Street Journal. It was about a high school in Cupertino, California, where a growing Asian American student population is causing rising academic standards -- and causing many white parents to withdraw their children from the school and some to move out of the community. The school has some of the highest test scores in the state. But, although everybody is in favor of high academic standards in the abstract, not everyone is in favor of having to struggle to meet those...

Ed Alcock for The New York Times Semou Diouf, 50, has spoken French all his life and was educated in France but says he still feels like an outsider, despite living under a Constitution that is officially color blind. PARIS, Nov. 10 - Semou Diouf, holding a pipe in one hand and a cigarette in the other...(snip) "I was born in Senegal when it was part of France," he said before putting the pipe in his mouth. "I speak French, my wife is French and I was educated in France." The problem, he added after pulling the pipe out...

Since 9/11, U.S. officials have struggled with how to protect the American public without infringing on individuals' rights and sensibilities. The touchiest issue of all is "profiling" — using various factors, including race or ethnicity, in security checks. So, it wasn't surprising that, when New York announced last week that it would begin screening passengers on the city's subway, officials promised loudly and insistently that the checks would be random and racial profiling would not be used. Such a policy avoids discrimination against certain ethnic groups — in effect, inconveniencing, embarrassing and perhaps even punishing individuals for crimes they did...

THE PRESIDENT: Gracias, y siéntese. (Laughter.) Thank you for the warm welcome. It's an honor to be here at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast. Thanks for inviting me back. I understand this, like you understand this: America is founded on los valores de fe y familia. (Applause.) These are the values at the heart of the Hispanic American community. These are the values that enrich our nation. And I am grateful. Your good works and reverence bring compassion to our country, and more importantly, honor to the Almighty. This morning we come together to pray, to pray for God's help...

TENS of thousands of white families are pouring out of UK cities as immigrants move in, a controversial new report claims. The exodus is creating an increasingly divided society, says the study for independent think-tank Migrationwatch UK. It found that 600,000 more people left London for the regions between 1993-2002 than arrived in the capital from elsewhere in Britain. Those moving out were believed to be mainly white. In the same decade, the number of immigrants arriving in London went up by 726,000. Migrationwatch said there were similar changes in Manchester and Birmingham. Chairman Sir Andrew Green said: “The development...

CHICAGO - Mid America Convalescent Center is one of a growing number of Chicago-area nursing homes that assemble residents by ethnicity. Asians live on one floor, Hispanics are on another. Each group has its own traditional food, activities and a staff that speaks its language. Within a few miles are other facilities doing the same for Poles, Russians, Indians and Koreans. There have long been nursing homes that cater to certain nationalities and religions, or become popular with different ethnic groups. But in Chicago, with the third largest number of foreign-born residents in the United States, that sort of specialization...

After much intramural whispering, the Black Alumni of Harvard in convention assembled have spilled the beans. They recently revealed to a couple of New York Times staffers that affirmative action has been attracting the wrong blacks to Harvard and other elite colleges. The data about the ethnicity of blacks—yeah, you read that right, the ethnicity of blacks—is not official, but it seems authoritative. Harvard is getting too few black kids from the inner cities and too many kids who are immigrants from the West Indies or their children, African-African immigrants or their children, or bi-racial blacks. That's ethnicity, see. Harvard...

America in 2050: Another country Posted: March 24, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com In 1960, when JFK defeated Nixon, America was a nation of 160 million, 90 percent white and 10 percent black, with a few million Hispanics and Asians sprinkled among us. We were one nation, one people. We worshipped the same God, spoke the same English language, studied American history and English literature, honored the same heroes, read the same books, watched the same TV shows, went to the same movies, and saw ourselves as defenders of Western Civilization against the godless communism of the Soviet...

Dr. John H. McWhorter...was on FoxNews this afternoon speaking about Micheal Jackson. A fine interview, McWhorter detailed the failed individual responsibility of Jackson, commenting that he was as white as modern cosmetic surgery could make him...also that the alledged connections to the Nation of Islam cannot help Jackson in the least and will actually hurt him. He also said Jackson needs to step up and start being a real person again... I have seen other interviews given by McWhorter. He always speaks with astonishing clarity and has an insite into the modern social-race issues that is always right on the...