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...Peng, owner, Hotel 1929 and New Majestic Hotel Singapore has quite a few vibrant ethnic neighborhoods like Chinatown, Little India and Arab Street. If you're after something exotic and unusual from old colonial Singapore, pop over to CK Collections in Little India for amazing period fans and lights. Call first, tel: (65) 9382 3438, or CK might be out fixing or delivering something. I recommend an early dinner of fish-head curry at Apollo Banana Leaf restaurant on Race Course Road, tel: (65) 6293 8682, followed by a long browse at Mustafa, a 24-hour shopping center...
...gypsy music was supposedly making a comeback? Praised in the blogosphere after their 2006 debut, Beirut was lumped into the same Eastern Invasion category as Gogol Bordello, simply because both bands cited gypsy influences. However, Beirut eschews Bordello’s hedonism and registers as a slightly more ethnic Neutral Milk Hotel. “The Flying Club Cup,” Beirut’s second album, seeks inspiration further west of their old sonic haunts and finds it in France. The influence is evident, superficially in the pretentious Francophone chatter at the beginning of songs, the French song...
...Finally, the criterion for a new emblem of belief specifically excludes “social, cultural, ethnic, fraternal, trade, professional or military emblems.” This rule inadvertently discriminates against nonreligious people who do not expressly identify as atheist. There are many other identifying organizations and affiliations that may be equally important to a person besides his religion. The way in which a veteran is remembered should not be limited solely to his religion. Although there certainly may be cost constraints to the VA’s ability to provide any and every emblem requested, the VA?...
...From these prominent organizations we can sense that the data publicized by the admissions office is very opaque—while it gives a racial breakdown, it reveals nothing about ethnicity, self-identification, or dynamics between ethnicities. The question, of course, is whether a painstakingly detailed ethnic breakdown is relevant. After all, Caucasians come from all over Europe, and we usually don’t distinguish Irish from Scot from Belgian. The circumstance that makes Asian American diversity important, however, is that this group is particularly new to the country; Asians only first began arriving in the late nineteenth century...
...conflict involves government forces, local rebel groups, and Arab janjaweed militias, blamed for atrocities against ethnic African villagers...