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...hunch who was to blame. “Me and the social chair were the only ones who weren’t Eastern European,” he says. As he saw it, students from places like Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria had turned Woodbridge into a cultural society all their...
Indeed, a year ago, students from Eastern Europe dominated the governing board of Woodbridge. With no other large cultural organizations to defect to, these students embraced the umbrella society—sometimes to the discomfort of other members...
...Eastern Europeans are very loud,” says Polish and Ghanaian Sam Palmer-Amaning ’05, a former president of the society. “Imagine coming to an event and seeing the whole Romanian crowd cheering and dancing, all speaking in the same language and singing the same songs. Someone may think that he’s come to a cultural party instead of a Woodbridge event...
...Acting on Faith” is endorsed by Eck’s Pluralism Project, an organization that devotes itself to the impact of changing immigration demographics—specifically the growth of Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern populations in the United States—on the cultural and religious lives of Americans...
...film, says Antell, means to “highlight some of the newer minority religions in the U.S.,” and therefore does not feature members of the Jewish or Christian faiths. Rather, the film explores the Eastern traditions of Hinduism, Islam, and Zen Buddhism, and the ways in which the three featured women use religious activism to help women grow as spiritual beings, family members and community members, noting that these roles should not be mutually exclusive...