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The analysis, “Behind Trump’s 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition,” found that Trump “won with a voter coalition that was more racially and ethnically diverse” than in either 2016 or 2020.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2025

Ethnically Uighur, Mamat left China at age 12 after an uprising in the region of East Turkestan, where most of Mamat’s extended family still lives.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023

An FBI statement said “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism,” as the agency calls it, was elevated to a “top threat” priority in 2019, meaning “more resources have been allocated to address the threat.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2022

Ethnically homogeneous Japan has long been wary of foreign migrants despite an aging population and a chronic labour shortage but opinion polls show a vast majority of Japanese support giving sanctuary to Ukrainians.

From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2022

Ethnically connected with the Kuki-Naga groups are the Kakhyens of the Irawadi headstreams, and the Karens, who form numerous village communities about the Burma-Siamese borderland.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court