Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What we do know, according to the report in The New York Times on Monday, is that a recent "informal survey" conducted by ethnic Koreans living in China suggests that 15 percent of the populace is being killed by the famine. We also know that most of the Koreans contacted about the survey refused to participate, fearing government disapproval. The causes of the famine are well known: flooding in 1995 and 1996, a drought this summer and the collapse of the Soviet regime...
...woman who became Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on Aug. 26, 1910, the daughter of a prosperous, ethnic Albanian business contractor in Skopje, now the capital of Macedonia. When she was seven, her father Nicholas died during what may have been a Balkan ethnic brawl. She would always be silent about her early life, but she told Muggeridge she had a vocation to serve the poor from the time she was 12. At 18, Agnes joined Ireland's Sisters of Loreto and took the name Teresa in honor of the French saint Therese of Lisieux, renowned...
Using the Amish and Hasidim as case studies, Bronner's class will question the building of ethnic traditions in contemporary America; it will also explore the impact of such ethnic communities on tourism and gender...
...requirements for the course include short assignments (20 percent), a final essay examination (40 percent) and a final research paper on the folklife of an ethnic community (40 percent...
Abramian, who has been homeless since he lost his job at the University, said he was the victim of a pattern of discriminatory treatment from supervisors, including disproportionate disciplinary measures and ethnic slurs...