Word: assimilationism
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In 2006, Chinese-American cartoonist Gene Luen Yang depicted what it was like to grow up as part of an ethnic minority in the U.S. with such arresting candor that his American Born Chinese became the first graphic publication named as a finalist for the National Book Award. Loosely based...
Alim denied that either factor lay at the root of the eruption of anger. "The real cause," he says, "is six decades of heavy-handed repression by the Chinese government in Xinjiang that has reduced Uighurs to second-class citizens in their own homeland. If we speak up, we get...
Wind-power estimates have been made before, but the PNAS team drilled them down to greater detail. Using a simulation of global wind fields from NASA's Goddard Earth Observing System Data Assimilation System - a network of complex computer systems used to simulate and predict meteorology - McElroy and his colleagues...
That young people declare their pride in the nation is to be applauded. Your story should have questioned people who didn't show their Aussie pride on Australia Day. As to the suggestion that there is something wrong with adorning the Aussie flag's image on clothing, accessories and faces...
Thanks to other high-profile rabbis, such as Capers Funnye, the African-American leader of Chicago's Beth Shalom B'Nei Zaken synagogue - and First Lady Michelle Obama's second cousin - mainstream American Jewry appears ready to embrace leaders like Stanton. And with African Americans becoming increasingly drawn to Judaism...