Stories about Ethnicity & Race from October, 2007
Philippines: Racist Remarks
Mukamo Philippines is carrying a post on a retired Filipino nurse who encountered racist insults at her workplace in the U.S. and is now trying to seek justice.
Russia: Moscow Migrants; Practicing Believers
According to the Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, “nearly two out of every three Muscovites now favor expelling [migrants] from the city and blocking any new arrivals.” Window on Eurasia has more on this – and also on the ratio of practicing Muslims to practicing Orthodox Christians...
Latvia: Citizenship Debate
So far, there are 121 comments to the “Stateless in Latvia” post at Euroblog by BBC's Europe editor Mark Mardell – and All About Latvia is tired of explaining Latvia's citizenship laws.
Poland: Irena Sendlerowa, 97, for Nobel
The beatroot writes about the woman who may beat Bono and Al Gore to the Nobel Peace Prize this year: “Twenty four years after Lech Walesa won it, 97-year-old Irena Sendlerowa – who is famous in Poland for protecting many, many Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of WW II...
Ukraine: Milla Jovovich Ukrainian Song
Ukrainian Musical Matters writes about an unlikely subject: Milla Jovovich. Her 1994 album – “one of the best kept musical secrets of the 90's” – includes a Ukrainian folk song that Milla sings in Ukrainian.
Europe: Eurovision's Changes
Due to the “east/west impasse” at the Eurovision Song Contest, the event's format changes beginning next year, Illyrian Gazette reports.
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Songs
Bosnia Blog writes about a song about Bosnia by the Cranberries’ – and another one, by an Italian rock band.
Bosnia & Herzegovina, USA: Immigration Fraud vs Genocide
“The U.S. courts charge Srebrenica genocide suspects for immigration fraud, but fail to prosecute them for war crimes,” writes Srebrenica Genocide Blog – and posts “an incomplete list of Srebrenica genocide suspects who were (so far) arrested in the United States and charged only with immigration fraud.”
Bosnia & Herzegovina: ” Great Powers & Srebrenica Genocide”
Srebrenica Genocide Blog posts an interview with the former official spokesperson for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague – who claims that “France, Great Britain and the United States have in effect protected Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, and are refusing to make available documents...
Bahrain: Non-Sectarian Mosque
Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif unveils plans to build the country's first non-sectarian mosque in this post.
Morocco: Looking inward, looking outward
An inflammatory post about Moroccans in the Gulf by a popular Moroccan blogger ignites a debate all over the world - Jillian York has the story on who's saying what.
Iraq: Biden Backfires
Or so says Al-Ghad. In an analysis by the Iraqi Communist Party (Central Leadeship) published in the blog Al-Ghad, they said, "Senator Biden’s motion [in congress calling for the partitioning of Iraq] has already backfired. It was condemned by the great majority of the Iraqi people and the political personalities, including high-ranking officials of the US installed government." Salam Adil brings us the latest criticism in Iraqi blogs.
Russia, U.S.: Satender Singh's Murder
Moscow Through Brown Eyes writes about the murder of Satender Singh in Lake Natoma, California, allegedly by two Russian-speaking men, one of whom, Andrei Vusik, is still at large – and, likely, in Russia: “Contact the Moscow bureau of the FBI and demand that they pressure the Russian authorities to...
Philippines: Sexism in activism
Penned by a Filipina novelist based in New York, Lily Pad replies to two letters asking about political sexism and models for activist women. Interestingly, the term Lily Pad seems to be a successful play of words and can mean “to fly” if heard by a Tagalog-speaking Filipina or Filipino.
Philippines: Enough Of Desperate Housewives
Doctor Anonymous is asking Filipinos protesting against American TV Show Desperate Housewives to stand down. The TV show had made a joke on Filipino doctors and later issued an apology.
Arabeyes: Moroccan Blogger Lashes Out at Gulf Arabs
Moroccan blogger Adilski lashes out at Gulf Arabs in this post, which I am translating from Arabic. Not happy with the media attention Moroccan women are getting in the Gulf, Adilski goes on to paint Gulf Arabs as lesbians and gays, living in oppressive societies and yearning for freedom.
Slovakia, Ukraine: Migrant Labor
Dr. Sean's Diary writes about Ukrainian migrant laborers in Slovakia.
Barbados: “Oedipal complainers”?
Barbados Free Press comments on an op-ed piece written by Barbados's commissioner for Pan-African affairs, who suggests that Barbadians are “Oedipal complainers”.
Palestine: Family Guy ‘Anti-Semitic’
TV show Family Guy has been sued for being anti-semitic, writes Palestinian blogger Haitham Sabbah here.
Russia: Central Asian Migrant Workers
“…The number of Central Asians coming to work in Russia is likely to continue to grow over the next several decades,” writes Window on Eurasia.
Russia: Corrupt Ethnocracies in North Caucasus
Window on Eurasia writes this about violence in the North Caucasus: “… The emergence of corrupt local ethnocracies as ‘the third force’ in this battle has generally passed unnoticed.” Also, according to the deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Nationality Affairs, “the people of Ingushetia no longer feel themselves...
