Perhaps demonstrating the point is that polls indicate votes are going to fall largely along ethnic lines.
Considerable progress has been made in achieving universal access to primary and secondary schooling across racial and ethnic lines.
El-Bashir rejects claims that the Darfur conflict is being fought along ethnic lines.
Meanwhile, southern rebel leaders have allowed their movement to fracture along ethnic lines.
It helps that political parties are not divided along ethnic lines, and that politicians have courted the newcomers' votes.
He said he was proud people voted for blocs based on political goals and not along sectarian and ethnic lines.
In a country that is increasingly polarized along sectarian and ethnic lines, these councils can perhaps provide the glue that keeps the country stitched together.
Others have been enraged by the suggestion of the new Serbian Prime Minister, Vojislav Kostunica, that Kosovo should be divided into cantons along ethnic lines.
The government paid bonuses to couples who wed across ethnic lines.
Some 40% of the state's Latinos defied their leaders to vote for scrapping bilingual education, a sign that they are not willing to vote purely on ethnic lines.
The deal split the Balkan nation along ethnic lines into two semi-autonomous parts linked by a weak central government and guided by a constitution that did not envisage a culture ministry.
Desegregation of American jails meant inmates from different races were integrated for the first time, and simmering tensions between them saw prisoners group together along ethnic lines in cliques such as the Black Guerrilla Family or the Mexican Mafia.
In Indonesia's case, it is to be hoped that neither will widen the country's religious and ethnic fault lines.
Firstly, access to education and therefore literacy rates vary significantly across ethnic and regional lines.
Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile and the Nuba Mountain region straddle Sudan and South Sudan's ethnic and political lines.
Political parties are organised along ethnic or sectarian lines, and represent the city's Urdu-speakers, Sindhis, Baloch, Pashtuns and Barelvi Sunnis.
Patronage networks pervade the Afghan forces, and a crucial question is whether they can avoid splintering along ethnic and patronage lines after 2014.
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The election results show that this diverse country - which has a Muslim majority - is still deeply divided along ethnic and religious lines.
But voting was largely on ethnic and linguistic lines, with the Swahili-speaking east voting for Mr Kabila and the Lingala-speaking west largely rejecting him.
Since both men are from Lingala-speaking western Congo, they may succeed in adding a chunk of western votes to Mr Kabila's Swahili-speaking eastern support (the voting in July was mainly on ethnic and linguistic lines).
The differences in diagnosis rates across economic, ethnic, and gender lines were striking, Boulet says.
Permanent alliances put strains on existing domestic schisms along ethnic, ideological or religious lines.
As the son of immigrants, I recognize that many of these challenges are both unique to certain groups but also cut across ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic lines.
Those ideas include blending personal responsibility and "principled ideas" with pragmatism, and building grass-roots movements crossing racial, ethnic, generational, gender and regional lines.
It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines.
More recently Greece has tried to maintain cordial relations and discreet lines of communication with just about everybody in the Balkans, including Bosnian Muslim or ethnic-Albanian politicians who would not previously have been welcome in Athens.
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