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Word: chaldean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Houston, a Korean immigrant owner trains Hispanic immigrant workers to prepare Chinese-style food for a largely black clientele. The Detroit area has 200,000 people of Middle Eastern descent; some 1,500 small grocery and convenience stores in the vicinity are owned by a whole subculture of Chaldean Christians with roots in Iraq. "Once America was a microcosm of European nationalities," says Molefi Asante, chairman of the department of African-American studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. "Today America is a microcosm of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond The Melting Pot | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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