Yet schools are strictly divided on ethnic lines and people simply do not mix.
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.
They are in disarray the party split, seemingly along ethnic lines, in a way that bodes ill for the country.
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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 contrast, Obama's "inclusive" approach that crosses "ethnic lines, racial lines, generational lines" is what the nation needs right now, he said.
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Just a mile or so apart, they are populated entirely on ethnic lines - one for displaced Buddhists and the other for the Rohingyas.
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.
Although the media often portrays their grievances along ethnic lines, in actual fact, many Chinese scholars, lawyers, environmentalists and businessmen are sympathetic and appreciate that their interests are aligned.
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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.
For one thing, the wars which Mr Milosevic sponsored in Croatia and Bosnia seemed to underpin the principle that the constituent republics of communist Yugoslavia could and should be broken up along ethnic lines.
Even worse, the army might split along ethnic lines, plunging the country into civil war and catastrophe on a vast scale for Nigeria's 100m people and the 60m or so neighbours at risk from Nigerian instability.
The idea of the south's independence, or at least its freedom from northern Islamic domination, remains as strong as ever, but the southerners are politically divided along ethnic lines and have never been militarily weaker.
Much of this upheaval can be traced back to militant Islamist groups, but it also stems from organized crime and turf battles, often waged along ethnic lines, to control sectors of the Dagestani economy and smuggling routes.
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 July, Mr Moi's policemen put down pro-reform demonstrations with a ferocity that provoked an international chorus of condemnation: the president was pictured as the last of Africa's old-school leaders, maintaining himself in power by bribing his opponents and dividing them along ethnic lines.
K. point to a larger fear among the Americans and the Afghans who are helping to train the Afghan security forces: that under the stress of battle and without a substantial presence of American combat troops after 2014 the Afghan Army could once again fracture along ethnic lines.
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.
The Syrian revolution will one day end, leaving behind a country divided along sectarian, ethnic and regional lines.
Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile and the Nuba Mountain region straddle Sudan and South Sudan's ethnic and political lines.
Fractured along socioeconomic, tribal, religious, political, ethnic and other lines, the glue that binds Arab societies is hatred of Jews.
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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