Word: bengalis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bengali chauvinist in me got a thrill: "This is Peter Jennings, tonight live from Calcutta." For the first and only time in my life, the great city I was born and raised in hit the big time. Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously "dying" for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world "another Calcutta." And why were the American media in Calcutta? For the funeral of an 87-year-old Albanian immigrant...
...their origins revealed. But lately it has become fashionable to be a first-fleet Australian. Likewise, in the new South Africa, nonwhite ancestry for an Afrikaner is not only politically correct but socially advantageous. Former President Frederik Willem de Klerk, once a defender of apartheid, now admits to a Bengali-slave forebear. In the U.S., blacks and whites are cooperating in joint genealogy searches. Says Colorado land appraiser James Rogers, a Caucasian who unearthed a slave ancestor: "It certainly brought home to me that we are all related...
Unlike other parts of the Boston area, Saint-Louis said Cambridge does not have a dominant non-English language. She said the Cambridge Health Alliance has interpreters for up to 30 languages, with the main ones being Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi, Haitian Creole, Gujarati, Bengali, Cape Verdian and French...
Interspersed between other acts, cast members came out in front of the curtain to read poems in many of the languages spoken in South Asia, including Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Telegu, Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Malayalam, Sinhalese and English...
...Interspersed between other acts, cast members came out in front of the curtain to read poems in many of the languages spoken in South Asia, including Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Telegu, Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Malayalam, Sinhalese and English...