Looking for those websites featuring enclaves, hybrid communities and historic minorities, within today's nations.
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. - Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) - The Jin Dynasty (1127-1233) - Mongolia Invasion & Yuan Dynasty (1233, 1279-1368) - Golden Age During the Ming Years (1368-1644) - Practice of Judaism in Kaifeng (960-1850) - Chinese Jews Outside Kaifeng Before Modern Times (718-1600) - Decline under the Qing Dynasty (1642-1912) - Pien-Liang (Kiafeng) - Harbin - Shanghai - Beijing - Hong Kong - Jewish Community Today - Community Contacts.
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.) The end of colonial rule in India and the birth of two new nations-India and Pakistan-was celebrated in California in 1947 by immigrant men from India’s Punjab province. There were celebrations in Yuba City in 1988. Marriages between Punjabis and Mexicans began in the second decade of the twentieth century.
The Punjabi immigrants For decades, farming families had been sending sons out of the Punjab to earn money. Yet it was clearly the mothers who socialized the children. Caucasians in the Capital: a Stroll Through Little Armenia | The Argentina Independent. 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.
Welcome to what porteños affectionately call ‘Little Armenia’ – a small enclave of the city of Buenos Aires that was populated in the first half of the 20th century by thousands of Armenians and their descendants. In 1984 the Porteño Deliberative Council renamed ten blocks of Calle Acevedo Calle Armenia in honour of its Caucasian residents. Armenia is a small land-locked country in the central Caucasus sharing borders with Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Iran. We talk about the Armenian community in Palermo today. 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.
Paraguay welcomed the emigrants. During the War of the Triple Alliance with its neighbors Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina, Paraguay lost substantial territory and many men. Three main waves of immigration arrived: Conditions were difficult for the few thousand arrivals. 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 Irish feats on the battlefield have often overshadowed the more mundane but perhaps more important talents of Irishmen in the fields of military engineering and organisation. After training in the Spanish Corps of Military engineers, Irish-born John Garland was dispatched to Chile, where in 1757 he prepared plans for the Pacific port city of Concepcion.
Medicine Journalism. “Scattered Africa” in Asia: Evolution in Research. Where Africa meets Asia: the Sidi communities | Maneno Matamu. 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. Like this: Africans of Pakistan.