Not everybody has a voice and we only learn about events that have been considered as important by someone and therefore made it into the history books. Different perspectives and ideologies of the observer can lead to completely different descriptions and interpretations of the same event. As a...
Also, she said her “real” biological father was a sailor who was either Cherokee or Comanche or even Chilean (when someone lies, the story changes) and her father came from India or Pakistan, interestingly, her home town El Centro CA along the Mexican border has one of the US’ oldest...
It could also be that villagers from different ethnic groups have difficulty working together, or that, if someone from a particular group elects not to participate, members of other groups have no means to punish him for not contributing. Perhaps the collective action failure can be traced to...
The models adjust for several demographic and household covariates in the multivariate analyses, including whether someone was born in the U.S., region (New England, Middle Atlantic, East North Central, West North Central, South Atlantic, East South Central, West South Central, Mountain, Pacific)...
It argues that the question “where are you really from” itself does not per se contest immigrants’ entitlement. However, what makes difference to the perception of whether one is an “interloper” – someone who is not wanted – is the “tangled” history, memory and expectation imbued ...
It always means how to look like someone who is half-Caucasian. What is different from the case of the Philippines is that half-Japanese models are not featured in advertisements of skin care products, while they are often in advertisements of makeup products. This could be because of the ...
a term often used to imply a strong sense of community among Mexican American men that is somewhat akin to frequent use of the label “brother” among African American men. On more occasions than I can count, people assumed that I spoke Spanish. Once, in Los Angeles, someone from the Spa...
At times we thought he was having a physical fight with someone and it was as if he was talking to a group and said, "Leave me alone, and don't beat me" (p2). Another caregiver said "He saw a jinn and we saw him talking to someone. He said that, the jinn appeared to me in...
The act of dancing in this way is part of the process of constructing their ethnicity in an affective sense, in the group-internal context of a wedding at someone’s home. At the same time, those dancers, and other members of the community, may also perform stylised versions of the same...
He does not realize that the Hephthalites sent envoys from Sogdiana or Tokhāristan at that time and they were surrounded by people of Iranian ethnicity, but howcould they select someone of an ethnic group speaking a Altaic language to serve as an envoy? Moreover, the Hephthalites sent ...