In Brazil. Korean Diaspora. In Mexico. Bifurcation, Hybridity. Delhi's last ten Jewish families guard an ancient heritage. Jewish History Tour - China. [By: Eli Braun] China has a long and storied Jewish history dating back to at least the eighth century.
Many Jews also came to China seeking refuge from Nazi Europe. Today, the Jewish population in China is approximately 2,500. The Greeks of Kazakhstan. South Asian Pioneers in California. California's Punjabi Mexican Americans. Return to home page Return to El Centro Return to Pioneers of El Centro California’s Punjabi Mexican Americans Ethnic choices made by the descendants of Punjabi pioneers and their Mexican wives By Karen Leonard, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine.
(Originally published in The World & I, vol. 4(5), May 1989, pp. 612-623.) (This article appeared in the May 1989 issue and is reprinted with permission from The World & I, a publication of The Washington Times Corporation, copyright (c) 1989.) Caucasians in the Capital: a Stroll Through Little Armenia Photo by Kate Granville-Jones A walk down Calle Armenia in Palermo can take you to the chicest of chic fashion shops, where extraordinary garments at extraordinary prices are pored over by hopelessly fashionable porteños.
Walk further towards Avenida Córdoba, however, and something begins to look different. Fewer shops, larger buildings, signs displaying strange symbols and old men chattering in a language that you don’t understand but you’re pretty certain isn’t Spanish. Germans of Paraguay - The Savior of "Green Hell" Heinrich Ratzlaff Epp keeps his foot firmly on the gas pedal of his Volkswagen sedan as we careen down a smoothly paved highway at 75 mph.
His blue eyes stare coolly ahead as he listens to the news--in German--on the car radio. Despite appearances, we are not cruising through Bavaria on the autobahn. We are on the Ruta Trans Chaco, a road through some of South America's roughest landscape into the remote Chaco region of western Paraguay. Ratzlaff, a humble Mennonite church leader and psychologist, grew up in this isolated area and now represents it in the Paraguayan congress. Several cows block the highway a few hundred feet down the road, but Ratzlaff does not seem concerned. "I once took a Canadian colleague down this road and he almost died of a heart attack," he says in a German-Paraguayan accent as thick as the stewy yerba mate tea he's sipping. Suddenly, a large object smashes into the windshield. Native peoples called this region "chacu," which means "great hunting ground.
" The Mennonites of Paraguay. Travelers to the Chaco region of Paraguay - South America's Last Frontier - often stop at Filadelfia in the heart of the Mennonite settlements.
Mennonite settlers came to Paraguay from Germany, Canada, Russia and other countries for a number of reasons: religious freedom, the chance to practice their beliefs without hindrance, the quest for land. Although German immigrants had settled in Paraguay before the turn of the 20th century, it wasn't until the 1920's and 30s that many, many more arrived. Many of the immigrants from Russia were fleeing from the ravages of the Bolshevik Revolution and the later Stalin repressions. They traveled to Germany and to other countries, and eventually joined the emigration to Paraguay. Hmong of French Guiana. South American Irish. From Irish Roots, No. 27 Published four times yearly.
The South American Irish By Brian McGinn Perhaps the biggest myth about the Irish in South America is the one that appeared in :Eire-Ireland, the scholarly US journal of Irish studies, in 1965. There, the novelist and librarian William B. Ready wrote that the Argentine Irish were 'money-grubbing bourgeoisie' and that the Irish 'contributed little to the South American way of life, except a pattern of Puritanical thrift and industry'.
Nobody attempted to refute Ready, and his iconoclastic interpretation remains Eire-Ireland's only article on this subject. Engineering. “Scattered Africa” in Asia: Evolution in Research. Where Africa meets Asia: the Sidi communities. Earlier this week, I had the pleasure to attend a themed week on Sidi culture hosted by Alliance Française de Nairobi.
From Monday to Wednesday, documentary films followed by discussions gradually introduced the audience to the history and lifestyle of this Afro-Asian community, from religious rites around the Bava Gor shrine to a dwindling poetic tradition. The week’s events culminated with a concert of traditional Sidi Goma music performed by a group from Gujarat, marking the official opening of the Samosa festival. Here is a video of a string instrument called ‘malunga’ which is thought to have originated in East Africa: Sidis (sometimes referred to as Habshis) are a community spread across several Indian states and beyond, whose ancestors came to South Asia from Africa as traders, soldiers and servants to the royal courts as early as the 13th century.
Indo-Portuguese is a language which should have died out with the end of Portuguese rule in 1658. According to Pr. Pr. Africans of Pakistan.