| In Asia as in Europe, empires and ethnicism are the enemies of the nation. |
| Nation-building could not be nurtured, he felt, upon a narrowly-framed Gikuyu ethnicism and rewards for the favored few. |
| However, we are currently experiencing a rise in racism which is interlinked with the manipulations of politicians, with the rise in communitarism, racism, ethnicism, ghettoization, exclusion and violence. |
| In his homily, he earnestly invited us to fight the virus of ethnicism and tribalism which corrodes our countries and our Churches, thus inviting us to unity in diversity. |
| Alarmed by the infiltration of internal and external forces outside the area of violent conflicts, exacerbated by ethno-religious negative solidarity and how ethnicism easily finds an ally in religion. |
| The common denominator in racism and ethnicism is the consciousness of the distinction and tension between us and them. |
