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...nothing. Now it's a big city." He turns to belt out a ballad in his native Fujian dialect. A fellow reveler, a 21-year-old who says he has only been in town a year, asks a visitor if he is frightened by the rising racial tension. "No," comes the reply. "What's to be scared of?" "They hate us," the 21-year-old says. "The Uighurs hate us Han." Uighur or Chinese, one emotion is constant in almost every conversation in Khotan these days: fear...
...Ethiopian immigrant community is essential to preserving his country’s traditions, but his daughter felt that traditionalist attitudes must adapt to globalization. She highlighted the broad spectrum of unconventional Ethiopian American identities that have flourished as immigrants encounter new cultures and take advantage of recent communications technology.This tension between preserving traditional Ethiopian culture and adapting to the demands of globalization was thoroughly discussed in the various panels and lectures, but it was perhaps most clearly articulated through the compositions of Mulatu Astatke showcased at Monday’s musical performance. Astatke began to integrate Ethiopian rhythms and scales...
...shop owner in the oldest township, Mbare, said he could not risk opening his store in the morning. "We didn't know what was going to happen because there was tension. We were afraid to open the shop because people usually loot." In Warren Park on Monday night, an 85-seater passenger coach had been burnt by protestors, prompting a heavy police presence. Witnesses said they heard gunshots at the scene during the night but were too afraid to go out. And in Glen View 1 township, supporters of the ruling Zanu-PF party and the MDC clashed after...
...vote. The ministers who join the new government will face daunting tasks. Economic growth is expected to be as low as 4% this year, down from nearly 7% last year. The 300,000 displaced have not returned to their homes, and resentments over ethnicity, land and resources still linger. Tension in the slums remains high. Kenya's population has exploded to more than 40 million, and the country is quickly running out of enough land for all its people...
...Action Network for Asian-Americans found it ‘pathetic’ and many MIT affiliates and involved personalities seem to have disowned it—precisely because the real human element was mortgaged and forgotten in favor of that mass-appeal treatment: a pearly film of sexual tension, quick cuts and a plot both sluggish and oversimplified...