Religious and Ethnic Diversity ETH/125 Cultural Diversity Wk 2 Part I Select at least one religious and one ethnic/racial group from the list: Religious Group: Buddhism Ethnic/Race Group: Asian Part II Religious Group: Buddhism Buddhism is 2500 yrs old‚ and differs from other religions in that even without the existence of a Buddha‚ the teachings in Buddhism still exist. Buddhists do not worship any one deity who exacts punishment or reward on those around them
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Azerbaijan Azerbaijani (Azeri; a Turkic language of the Altaic family) 89% Russian 3%‚ Armenian 2%‚ other 6% Bahrain Arabic (Arabiyya) English‚ Farsi‚ Urdu Bangladesh Bengali (Bangla) English Bhutan Bhutanese (Dzongkha) The Bhotes (the principal ethnic majority 50%) speak various Tibetan dialects like Tshanglakha and Khenkha‚ Nepalese speak various Nepalese dialects like Lhotsamkha. Brunei Darussalam Malay‚ English Chinese Cambodia Khmer spoken by more than 95% of the population (Khmer language
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Pre-WWI 1) Otto von Bismarck’s foreign policy had the goal of securing the territory of Europe‚ staying peaceful with minimal conflict‚ and isolating France. In order to do this‚ Germany had to be on good terms with the Russians and Austrians‚ because a conflict between the two would not be beneficial for Germany. An agreement between Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ and Russia was made in 1871 to guard Germany against war with the French and to isolate them. It was known as Dreikaiserbund. This shortly
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contributed to the relations between European countries before 1914. Main People Luigi Albertini: an Italian journalist and politician‚ who studied the causes of World WarI Fritz Fischer: a German historian who published a history of German policy before and during the war Helmuth von Moltke: the German chief of staff who was afrain of a European war‚ but nevertheless “prepared to urge measures that he knew would bring a general war.” Outline A. World War I is among the most widely discussed
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advantage of and blamed on the Jews‚ like the state of Germany’s economy after WW I‚ the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles‚ the expensive war reparations and of course the Great Depression. And we can’t excuse the actions of so many of the German people who supported Hitler. However‚ for one man to be able to bend the will of so big and civilized a country like Germany and cause the death of six million people by convincing his fellow countryman that they belonged to a master race and that
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The cry for help from various targeted groups was ignored‚ and resulted in a tragedy never before seen by the world. Thousands of regrets were made‚ and millions of questions were asked by those who had committed almost as big as a crime as the Germans during this genocide; disregard and negligence; all eventually promised to never let such disasters occur again. Just half a century later‚ the citizens of Bosnia‚ still able to reflect on the previous European catastrophe‚ had a similar occurrence
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Experience‚ Memory and Narrative: A Biographical Analysis of Ethnic Identity MICROCON Research Working Paper 29 Teodora Karamelska and Christian Geiselmann June 2010 Correct citation: Karamelska‚ T. and Geiselmann‚ C.‚ 2010. Experience‚ Memory and Narrative: A Biographical Analysis of Ethnic Identity MICROCON Research Working Paper 29‚ Brighton: MICROCON First published in 2010 © Teodora Karamelska and Christian Geiselmann 2010 ISBN 978 1 85864 940 4 For further information‚ please
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Language Shift and Purism: A Comparative Analysis By Michael A. Haedicke Since Gal’s (1979) pioneering study of the phenomenon‚ a number of researchers have considered language shift in communities around the world. Language shift occurs when a group of bilinguals loses or gives up one of their languages‚ usually the language of their ancestors. Most of these studies follow Gal’s lead by analyzing language shift as “an instance of socially motivated linguistic change”
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Chihuahuas vs German Shepherds Did you know that a Chihuahua is classified as a lapdog‚ and German Shepherds are herding dogs? ( Germanshepherdguide.com ) Well what do you think would happen if you had a Chihuahua or a German Shepherd? These two breeds of dogs are not the same‚ so they should not be treated the same way. Look Chihuahuas can be any color with a variety of markings (World Book )‚ and German Shepherds can be any color‚ but most are tan and black‚ or reddish and black ( Ducksters
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While German and Irish immigration of the 1840?s and 1850?s was similar in many ways‚ some differences were also evident. German and Irish immigrants‚ native of Europe‚ fled across the Atlantic Ocean to the heartland of the United States for different reasons‚ causing numerous different effects on the people and the land they came to inhabit. The German and Irish immigration of this time period can be compared through their motives‚ distributions‚ and political effects. German and Irish immigrants
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