As political controls have eased and the economic crisis deepened, the recurrent ethnic antagonisms have sharpened.

The book predicts the country's eventual breakup under the weight of social and ethnic antagonisms and a disastrous war with China.

A first point is that despite ethnic antagonisms, no Afghan ethnic group claims independence or seeks attachment to a neighboring country.

Yet even in the world's most polyglot city, people report remarkably few crimes caused by racial and ethnic antagonisms.

Once inflammatory leaders egg on ethnic antagonisms, one force that might slow the momentum toward conflict is vocal opposition within their own ethnic group.

With the nation's economic and political structures under such strain, long-suppressed ethnic antagonisms have dramatically resurfaced.

But ethnic and regional antagonisms exist just as they did elsewhere and the apartheid legacy is a uniquely bitter one.

With multiple nationalities living in the same territory, ethnic antagonisms developed over the years.

The fundamental ethnic antagonism in Fiji must be resolved.

Secondly, I disagree that there is a fundamental ethnic antagonism in Fiji.