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Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic
Society, Politics & Law

Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic

...religion and ethnicity. Canada has somehow managed to a large extent to remain strong and united despite all these differences.” Ahmed Hussen says the Canadian-Somali community brings with it certain natural strengths. “There's a very rich history way back from Somalia of entrepreneurship, a willingness to take business risks in places that have been written off....
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A Buen Puerto: Fast Forward in Spanish
Languages

A Buen Puerto: Fast Forward in Spanish

...religion, known as Santeria in Cuba. The symbolism of the various characters in the dance is explained. Cuba: With rhythm in the body Rodolfo says that rhythm is all-important in Cuban dance. Different parts of the body have to move independently of others! He also discusses mambo and the ever-changing nature of Cuban music and dance Cuba: Salsa A description of the...
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Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...religion, culture, ability/disability, sexual orientation and others can intersect or overlap to create different experiences of discrimination or privilege and different patterns of advantage or disadvantage. First coined by Kimberle Crenshaw (1989, p. 65), a theorist in the USA, Crenshaw explains that intersectionality can be understood as a metaphor. Imagine an...
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Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...religion, or a different nationality, a different language, a different home life, which makes it more difficult, and they face an extra challenge and barrier to getting on in school and continuing into higher education and into employment and so on. SAWA HUMAYAN Swansea is kind of, like, a diverse city, where people are from different countries, and having this community...
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Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148
History & The Arts

Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148

...religion; naturalize foreigners; dissolve marriages; legitimate bastards; attaint a man of treason, etc. Lord Bolingbroke, indeed, is of a different opinion, and affirms there is something which a parliament cannot do: it cannot annul the constitution; and that if it should attempt to annul the constitution, the whole body of the people would have a right to resist it. It...
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Ashura
History & The Arts

Ashura

...Religions/Encyclopedia of Islam). [The Day of Ashura in Istanbul.]Young men mourn during the day of Ashura in Istanbul. Shi‘a Muslims also commemorate the 40th day after Ashura, Arbaeen, and in the days leading up to it huge numbers of pilgrims walk the 50 or so miles from Najaf (where Ali is buried) to Karbala where they take part in further mourning rituals for Husayn...
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Soil as the book of nature
Nature & Environment

Soil as the book of nature

...religion and from archaeology to disease and warfare, and as a further example, many states in the U.S. have a specific soil that is legislatively established as a ‘state soil’, just like a state bird or flower. What is the status of soils today? Like most of earth’s resources, soils in all parts of the world are under threat. From the physical problem of compaction...
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I have an accent, (why) does it matter?
Languages

I have an accent, (why) does it matter?

...religion, gender identity and sexual orientation are protected characteristics in the UK, accent is not yet. Accent by nature and by definition is something that is noticed by listeners. Some foreign accents, however, are perceived more favourably than others. In a study carried out in the US, French-accented English was generally perceived more favourably than Arabic- or...
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