Woods, multiracial but identifiably black, triumphed in a sport dominated by upper-class white men.
Mahathir has now acknowledged that assimilation cannot succeed -- it is a multicultural, multiracial society.
In winning, Mahathir crushed a Malay-Muslim-based multiracial party, Bersekutu, wh ose leader is well known.
Race is a complex and sensitive issue in our multiracial society but the government's policy is clear.
But last year's riots were a picture of multiracial harmony, with black and white looting side by side.
Or even of the power of faith (cut to inspirational scene in church, complete with multiracial gospel choir).
Often overlooked as well is America's unique advantage as an inclusive multiracial society.
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The last thing this steaming multiracial, multi-ethnic, multi-everything cauldron of 260 million souls requires is yet more rawness in our national life.
Its supporters are multiracial (about 60% black and 18% white), middle class, relatively well educated and well balanced across all age groups.
Mandela told the delegation that awarding South Africa the tournament would be a tribute to the country's peaceful transition to multiracial democracy.
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He portrays himself as a liberally minded champion of multiracial politics, yet critics say he has done little to rein in the racist attacks.
Multiracial students tended to have more Facebook friends than students of other backgrounds and were often the sole connection between white and black circles, Kaufman said.
There was that constant rub of Kuala Lumpur's political governance, by which the ruling coalition sought to smother differences in a multiracial society while boosting ethnic Malays.
And it was a place of great hope and it was a beacon to apartheid South Africa that it could leave apartheid and become a multiracial democracy.
To his dying day he continued to recall the good old ways of apartheid and to predict the eventual inevitable collapse of a foolhardy experiment with multiracial democracy.
The case, which is still going on, brought Malaysians face to face with a hidden scandal at the heart of this multiracial society: the abuse of overseas domestic helpers.
Even on the issue of the police shootings, Mr Giuliani has a legitimate point (a multiracial jury recently acquitted four policemen whom Mrs Clinton had deemed to be murderers).
Most of these have a multiracial cast, look to Africa for inspiration rather than clinging to images of Europe or America, or poke fun at South African racial stereotypes.
Reading excerpts from the speeches, prosecutor Rodney Jameson QC opened the case against the men by telling the court Mr Griffin said white society had turned into a multiracial "hell".
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Originally created by Tarell Alvin McCraney for London's Royal Shakespeare Company, it's a multiracial modern-dress version that runs for 90 intermission-free minutes, nearly three hours shorter than an uncut production.
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In the last whites-only poll, in 1992, more than 875, 000 white South Africans voted no in a referendum on reforms that would lead to a multiracial democracy two years later.
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The most promising case is Martin, who, for reasons you'll discover on your own, has joined a multiracial society in what was, not so long ago, one of the most rigidly racist countries on earth.
"I believe the most profound question facing us is whether we can become the world's first truly multiracial democracy, " the president told CNN's Frank Sesno on "Late Edition" in an interview taped Saturday and aired Sunday.
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In a country where 79% of the 50m-strong population are black, 9% white, another 9% coloured (mixed-race) and 3% of Indian or Asian descent, the still white-dominated but increasingly multiracial DA ended up doing rather well, increasing its support in every municipality it contested.
South Africa has its problems, but from what everybody could see during the World Cup, the potential for moving that country forward as a multiracial, African democracy that can succeed on the world stage, that's a model that so far at least Zimbabwe has not followed.
In Birmingham, the city where my constituency is, there are some of our inner city schools that are 98% Muslim and they do well and we have many examples of good multiracial schools and we ought to hang onto that in the days and weeks to come.
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