Gypsies and travellers are the largest ethnic minority group in south Cambridgeshire, making up about 1% of the population.

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The commonly used index of segregation, which measures the number of people who would have to move in order to spread themselves evenly over a city, shows that every large ethnic minority group became less segregated between 1991 and 2001.

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The group is made up of fighters who deserted from the Congolese army following a mutiny and are mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group, a minority in eastern DR Congo.

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Pushtuns are a large minority in Pakistan and the biggest ethnic group in Afghanistan.

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That moment was likely the first time the target of his off-the-cuff comments were aimed at a popular group, instead of an ethnic minority.

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Another factor, suggests a spokeswoman for the Russell Group, is that applications from ethnic minority pupils are disproportionately focused on some of the most over-subscribed and competitive courses, such as medicine.

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For most Pushtuns, who claim to be a majority and are certainly Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, the emerging bargain between the former monarch and the minority tribes of the Northern Alliance cedes too much power to the latter.

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War there has been waged between the Sri Lankan government, tending to represent the interests of Sri Lanka's majority, and predominately Buddhist, Sinhalese ethnic group, and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who claim to represent the mostly Hindu Tamil minority.

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It is a compromise between the claims of the Pushtuns (the country's largest ethnic group, to which both Mr Karzai and most of the Taliban belong) and the Northern Alliance of minority Tajiks and Uzbeks.

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