Breaking down the de facto ethnic separation that has been allowed or even encouraged to develop will be an enormous task.

This would explain the memory of that ethnic separation.

"My main worry," he said, "is that the forces of ethnic separation still are far stronger than the forces of ethnic reintegration."

Because of the hills, there was an ethnic separation.

Separatism is the advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group.

This further shows the cultural and ethnic separation of Rajasthanis from north Indian culture.

According to the Chinese government the book advocates ethnic separation; scholars in Japan, however, insist no such book exists.

Should any new school receive public funding while promoting ethnic or religious separation?

"In a city where ethnic separation was routine, racial integration was unthinkable," he says.

In New York, Washington and Los Angeles, the study said that civil leaders often assume racial and ethnic separation is worse in the South.