race relations

race relations
   the reality within a community of differing racial descent or nationality
   Not international diplomacy but relating to any attempt in a community to combat prejudice against and conflict between people of different race, colour, or nationality. Whence the race relations officer, who monitors conduct and offers advice, particularly in mixed communities; race relations laws, which decree individual or institutional behaviour; the race relations board, which seeks out and sponsors litigation against alleged offenders; and the pejorative race relations industry, which, in the eyes of its critics, has an obsessive attitude to matters which they feel would be better left to individual choice.

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