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    political and economic center in the northeastern region. The province is subdivided into 32 districts. The districts are further subdivided into 263 sub-districts and over 3000 villages. The people of this province are a mixed-breed. There are those of Khmer ancestry‚ Laotian ancestry and Chinese ancestry. In the town areas‚ most of the people speak standard Thai but in the more rural areas‚ they speak ‘Khorat’ which is a dialect half way between Thai and Isaan. Nakhon Ratchasima is traditionally an agricultural

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    Sihaknoukville: The Paradise of the Sea Abstract Whatever the movies or news have taught you about Cambodia‚ forget it. The newly dubbed Kingdom of Wonder has an exotic attractiveness for tourists and it has delighted guests from all over the world. Visitors have clearly recognized the diversities of the tourism experience in this Kingdom due to her cultural and natural heritage. Cambodia’s intangible cultural sites and religious temples enamor visitors with a feeling of calm and peace. They

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    religion was a big factor. In the Stalin Genocide race and religion was a great cause of death as well. The Russia Soviet Union would target the Muslims or the non Greek Orthodox. The deaths in Cambodia’s Genocide was also because of race/religion. The Khmer Rouge would attack Cambodians and those who were officials of a former government‚ and anybody who questioned or opposed the

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    1) Nationalism‚ socialism‚ and religion have all played a major role in anti-colonial struggles and post-colonial constructions in India and Southeast Asia. Which of these three ideologies do you think was most effective for colonized peoples and why? I. Nationalism was most effective for the colonized peoples of India and South East Asia a. Both socialism and Nationalism worked together to fight against imperial rule. Nationalism brought the people of India and Southeast Asia together

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    Idiophone An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings ormembranes. It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. The early classification of Victor-Charles Mahillon called this group of instruments autophones. Most percussion instruments that are not drums are idiophones. Hornbostel-Sachs divides idiophones into four main sub-categories

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    population of this country is 81‚624‚716 (July 2003). Ethnic groups include the Vietnamese (80-95%)‚ Chinese‚ Hmong‚ Thai‚ Cham‚ and other mountainous groups. Languages used are Vietnamese (Official)‚ English (second most favored)‚ French‚ Chinese and Khmer. Some of the many religions practiced are Buddhist‚ Hoa Hao‚ Cao Dai‚ Christian (Roman Catholic‚ protestant) and Muslim. The life expectancy for a person living in Vietnam is approximately 67.58 years for the male and 72.7 for the females. Literacy

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    their religious beliefs and practices. Rather than falling into American culture the immigrants are able to keep a strong hold on their individual religious beliefs. In Los Angeles there are over one hundred languages spoken. Long Beach is where the Khmer Bodhikaram is‚ which is a Cambodian Buddhist temple and monastery‚ Long Beach is the largest Cambodian community in America. There were around one hundred and fifty thousand Cambodian refugees that arrived in the United States in the early eighties

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    Thai and Lao are similar‚ related languages in the Tai-Kadai language family. Each has its own unique alphabet based on Sanskrit‚ and many words have a Sanskrit or Pali origin. Loanwords have also been taken from Chinese‚ Vietnamese‚ Khmer (Cambodian)‚ Malay‚ and other languages‚ including English. For those interested in learning to read and write either language‚ it is vital to learn the alphabet with the aid of someone who already speaks the language. Unlike English‚ each letter represents

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    Genocide Paper I personally think genocide is wrong in every way you can think of. Why would anyone want to deliberately kill a group of people based on race or ethnicity? There have been much genocide to take place around the world‚ but some are better known than others. Some people have different theories on why genocide takes place. I think that genocide occurs for a couple reasons. The leaders of the genocide may feel that the group they are eliminating could be a potential threat somehow.

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    Contact author: Justine Drennan When asked to choose an ideal identity‚ one ladyboy in Phnom Penh told researchers‚ “I want to be a real girl. I was a girl in my previous life.” The interviewee explained that according to village elders ladyboys had been women in past lives but had stolen other women’s husbands‚ and so were reincarnated as transgender. Ironically‚ the stigma surrounding ladyboys’ sex and gender‚ rather than causing them to suppress this part of their identity‚ often pushes them

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