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Quotes About Ethnic tension

The Shiv Sena was the handiwork of a cartoonist named Bal Thackeray, whose main target was south Indians, whom he claimed were taking away jobs from the natives. Thackeray lampooned dhoti-clad 'Madrasis' in his writings and drawings; while his followers attacked Udupi restaurants and homes of Tamil and Telugu speakers.
~ Ramachandra Guha
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
~ William Butler Yeats
I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.
~ Richard Wagner
He's got a bad case of something I call ethnic PMS. I think it sounds nicer than 'bloodlust.
~ Andrei Codrescu
I have an easy way to explain the war. It's a Croatian defending his country and a Serb attacking a Croatian country. With anyone who has a problem with understanding what's going on, that is the easiest way to understand it.
~ Toni Kukoc
With access to enough Facebook data, it would finally be possible to take the first stab at simulating society 'in silico.' The implications were astonishing: You could, in theory simulate a future society to create problems like ethnic tension or wealth disparity and watch how they play out.
~ Christopher Wylie
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
~ John Clayton
Kashmir was one of the few places in the world where a fair-skinned people had been ruled by a darker-skinned one.
~ Arundhati Roy
When Jewish youths walk down the street and demand the death of Arabs simply because they're Arabs, then I've lost my own small battle.
~ Sayed Kashua
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
~ James Rado
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
~ Yoweri Museveni
Wir Juden haben die Völker mit einem ewigen Gott belastet, und darum hassen sie uns.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.
~ Neal Shusterman
I dinna wish to hear another bluidy word come out o' her Sassenach mouth!
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
Opposing forces close rank, black versus white, Republican versus Democrat, plantation riverbed people versus hill people.
~ Lalita Tademy
They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.
~ Tupac Shakur
My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.
~ Brigitte Bardot
We moved to a town that's predominately Caucasian, some Hispanic and one or two black families, and they do shrimping for a living. Here come hundreds of Vietnamese doing the same occupation. So there was a lot of tension because people were saying we were taking money, shrimp, fish or whatever it is.
~ Dat Nguyen