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    Orissa Tribal Tour Orissa is an amazing land known for its ethnicity and cultural heritage. If you are looking to interact with the traditional culture, practices and the people then there is no other better place than Orissa to travel and spend your vacation. Orissa is called as the homeland of tribes, there are 62 types of tribes which constitutes 29% of its population. With this you can clearly know that Orissa is one land that is rich in culture as well as modernization of thoughts of practices

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    Scientific and Cultural Organization. UNESCO is in charge of the World Heritage List, a selection of sites across the world which are considered of “outstanding universal value” and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria. This list includes such wonders as the Silk Roads in China, the Cathedral of Notre Dame in France, the Pyrenees in Spain, Stonehenge, and the Great Barrier Reef. The Reef was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1981, as the world’s most extensive coral reef ecosystem

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    the Pyramids of Egypt and Stonehenge. These temples were preserved and covered in soil. They were rediscovered in the 19th century. Because of their unique architecture and the history behind it, the Temples of Malta are classified as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. There are four different Temple phases that occurred throughout the Malta period. The Mgarr phase (3800 – 3600 BC) was mainly pottery and the very beginning of the temples. During the Gantija Phase (3600 – 3000 BC) the temples began to be

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    Why don’t we see the top one percent of the United States as a Minority? Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a minority to be “a group of people who are different from the larger group in a country, area, etc., in some way” hence the top 1% can be defined as a minority in technical terms since they only make up 1 percent of the nations population. Yet no matter who you ask nobody will state the top one percent as a minority on their own. Here I think we see two different views of minorities

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    In the Nahuatl language tlamatini refers to someone who knows things. These sages and philosophers sought to answer questions. Tlamatinime are known as the wise man and the advisers of the Mexica. In almost in every family and culture everyone has the one go-to person. In my family, my grandma would probably be the tlamantinis in my family from my father’s side. The reason why I say from my father’s side is because I have no knowledge about my mother’s family side since no one lives in California

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    Giant is a revolutionary film based on how people were placed in different hierarchy depending on their race or gender and income level in the 1950s in Texas. Throughout the film, you will see how people are treated differently based on their place in the hierarchy of life that is placed on people by rich Anglo Americans. Women, low income people and people of color have had to withstand a lot throughout the years, but slowly but surely this world started to change for the better. This film will

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    highly worth analyzing.   When we talk about these three art performances, what comes to you mind will be the term “intangible cultural heritage”. Indeed, Peking Opera, Noh, Pansori were inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010 and 2008 for the rest of the two. It aims to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage in favor

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    Latino Americans are facing issues with their identity because of their ethnic and racial backgrounds due to our education institutions in America. These issues result in a separation of their American and Latino culture creating two different identities but not enough of American or Latino identity to fully feel part of either culture. This paper will be addressing the differences between American and Latino culture. American culture is an individualistic culture in which everyone tries to be

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    History of US Immigrants

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    small compared with that of other Hispanic immigrants, has a high level of education, higher incomes and a high rate of homeownership, announced today the Pew Hispanic Center. The report, 16 pages, based on 2004 data from the Census Bureau and highlights the major features of the Cubans in the United States, both those born in this country and those who emigrated from the island. In total, there are about 1.5 million Cubans in this country, or 4 percent of the Hispanic population, "of which 912,686

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    Latinos and Hispanics, but they are also exceedingly closely related. It is important to remember that these terms refer to ethnicity, not race. Latinos and Hispanics are two different words that may or may not mean the same thing. Some people say Hispanics are those descending from Spain and speak Spanish. Others say it is not the same because Latinos include people from Latin American countries. Since this would include non-Spanish speaking countries it is not the same as Hispanic. So technically

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