ethnicity discourseethnic identity and conflictTurkeyIraqKurdsBefore asking what leverage Beijing holds over Pyongyang, a more fundamental question remains: what exactly are the messages that China is sending to North Korea? A former Chinese foreign ministry official conveys five and predicts whether they...
The interaction of geography and ethnicity is the key to understanding the daily experiences and needs of ethnic minorities and immigrants, and the media that serve them. The Roles of Ethnic Media The reasons for studying ethnic media are directly related to the multiple roles they play in the ...
there are also bearded men who pray five times a day and observe Ramadan like any devout follower of Islam. Needless to say, Rojava, the PYD (of which the YPG are the armed branch) are only the forces on the ground, a fragment of a spectrum – the Kurdish cultural one – that...
there are also bearded men who pray five times a day and observe Ramadan like any devout follower of Islam. Needless to say, Rojava, the PYD (of which the YPG are the armed branch) are only the forces on the ground, a fragment of a spectrum – the Kurdish cultural one – that...
We see here the precursor to the militarizing of sect and ethnicity. Kurds and Shia become “factions” rather than citizens with commitments and concerns. “I don’t think that we should ever say that because of what’s happening to the Kurds now means that our mission failed,” said Gene...
I bet all of you can guess what my second choice of ethnicity would be, after all I am Farsisteve! I love the Persian culture, they have a rich heritage of cuisine, poetry, and their manners and etiquette are among the most sophisticated, even among the poor. They are always very welc...
In those days, there was no concept of “race” in the modern sense, it was one’s ethnicity — religion, social customs and culture. Circumcised convert Jews were expected to conform to whatever norms of Jewish towns, villages, groups and synagogues they were converting to including manner ...
The grievances of the minorities under Iranian rule (who combined comprise the majority) grew throughout the second Pahlavi monarchy (1941-1979) since Mohammad Reza Pahlavi adopted his father’s deeply chauvinist policy to ethnically restructure the country completely based on Persian ethnicity and iden...