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Lacking detailed knowledge of precisely where our ancestors came from, whether they were Fon or Ashanti or Serer, African Americans have tried to adopt the continent as a whole as a place of origin. But that indiscriminate embrace poses problems of its own: Which of the hundreds of languages and cultures that flourish in Africa are we to call our own? What, for example are African Americans raised in the Christian faith to make of religious and cultural traditions such as female circumcision, which is still widely practiced in Africa? I once met a Kikuyu physician in Kenya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In African-American Eyes | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...thin white tubes that nearly fill one cardboard box are pieces of tobacco pipes, Stubbs says. Mostly English in origin they were used between 1640 and 1760. Archaeologists can date the artifacts according to the hollow pipes, because over time, they were made with smaller and smaller holes...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: WHEN TRASH BECOMES TREASURE | 7/10/1992 | See Source »

...Various Other Posers. Actually, we all met each other and then became the Posers. I don't remember the origin or the purpose of the name...

Author: By Dante E.A. Ramos, | Title: I Went to MIT My First Year--And Lived! | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...jobs and welfare benefits. Germany has been particularly responsive, shelling out $51 million this year in refugee assistance and taking in 115,000 refugees -- almost twice as many as Hungary, which has the second largest influx. Germany's appeal owes much to its 800,000 guest workers of Yugoslav origin. "Practically everybody has a relative or a friend living in Germany," says Wolf Oschlies, a Yugoslav specialist at Cologne's Federal Institute for Eastern European and International Studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of Slaughter | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

Hispanic former guard Rolando Diaz, a citizenof El Salvador, said Behenna cursed at him,laughed at his questions, and occasionally madederogatory references to his ethnic background.Diaz also said Dowling fired him because of hisnational origin...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guards Divide Over Bias | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

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