Southeast Asia consists of the ten nation-states of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The people in each are of mixed ethnic backgrounds since they are composed of groups...

Differences exist among ethnic and cultural groups in their use—and abuse—of drugs and alcohol, as well as among risk factors that precede use and responses to treatment. Research suggests that an approach known as cultural...

Until the renewal of violent conflict in Central and Eastern Europe, and more spectacularly in the Balkans, at the end of the twentieth century, postindependence South Asia seemed more prone to violent conflict linked to nationalism and ethnicity than...

In national statistics for the United States, including many national surveys on drug use, Americans are divided into four racial groups: (1) white, (2) black, (3) Asian or Pacific Islander, (4) American Indian or Alaska native. The races are often...

A STRIKING BREAK in what seemed a drea\ry regional and even global pattern of ethnic discord is emerging in Hungary. A country whose losses of territory and population in World War I left it at seemingly permanent odds with many of its seven neighbors,...

It has become commonplace to speak of ethnic violence arising from the ruins of communism in the Balkans and in the Transcaucasus states of Central Asia as if it were something new and surprising. The recent, appalling carnage in Rwanda and Burundi is a...

Nearly 18,000 people are still missing from the ethnic wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday.About 13,500 of those missing are from the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, while 2,386 are from the 1991-95 conflict...

During his ascent to the dictatorship of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler mastered the use of propaganda, raising both the public’s hatred of non-Aryans and its loyalty to himself and the Nazis. In many speeches, Hitler aimed his propaganda at...