Word: plateaus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viet Nam's Montagnards have never mixed well with the Vietnamese, who tend to scorn them as savages. French colonial authorities generally left the Montagnards alone. Few Vietnamese display much interest in or knowledge of the roughly 1,000,000 tribesmen living in the remote, heavily jungled high plateaus. The Montagnards take a lot of knowing, for they comprise an extraordinarily complex ethnolmguistic mixture numbering at least 20 tribes and many more splinter groupings. They have for centuries resisted the cultural influences of the Sinic and Hindu peoples that have flooded into the IndoChinese peninsula. Saigon leaders, from President...
...distinctive art. Scholars knew that Himalayan art was an offshoot of the Indian tradition, centered on the Buddhist and Hindu pantheon of deities. But what they knew was mostly by repute, since few had the physical stamina or the political entree necessary to reach the remote valleys and high plateaus where the monasteries and temples were lodged...
...south, high-walled family compounds housing fierce Pathan tribesmen still stud the countryside. In the bleak mud houses of northern villages, young children often go blind weaving and knotting traditional Bukhara rugs. Nomad Kuchis seek fresh pasture land for their camels and fat-tailed sheep on the desolate plateaus, as chill winds whistle down from the snowy summits of the 600-mile-long range of the Hindu Kush...
...warns that too much speculation about the mystery of heaven, hell and the afterlife leads nowhere: "It is here and now that we are called to learn, to work, to love, to enjoy-and to grow. There is in this view of things every motivation for moving to new plateaus of freedom and effectiveness, for becoming all we can become, while in these familiar surroundings. One world at a time...
...dust storms, no dust ever gets into the dark areas. Sometimes dust comes right up to a dark area and appears to bounce back suddenly. This would be difficult to explain if the dark areas were lowlands, Pollack said. But it fits perfectly if the dark areas are high plateaus which turn away dust streams