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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Ethnic Boundaries"”.
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Interethnic perception of ethnic boundaries in Penang, Malaysia
… case study was conducted to address questions of ethnic boundaries and the dynamics of urban communities in Penang, Malaysia. An ethnic boundary study is based on a systematic set of rules that governs a person's behavior and actions in interethnic relations: it generates and maintains ethnic …
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Polish-American Music in Detroit: Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries
… metropolitan area this pattern has produced an ethnic community which includes third and fourth generation Polish-Americans as well as post-World War II emigres. The disparate backgrounds and political orientations of the pre- and post-World War II immigrants and their descendants have resulted …
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Ethnic boundaries redefined: The emergence of the "Permanent outsiders" in Singapore
This study examines ethnicity manifested in urban landscapes in the context of globalization and international migration in Singapore. The discourse in Singapore is centered on CMIO multiethnicity and Singaporea??s ethnoscape comprising a unique a??CMIOscapea??a??imagined and constructed not only …
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Making Mongols: Representations of Culture, Identity, and Resistance
… reimagined identities construct and maintain ethnic boundaries which prevent the total absorption of a distinct Mongolian identity.
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A Marshland of Ethnolinguistic Boundaries: Conflicting Past and Present BE Paradigms in Coastal Carolina Speech.
… is attributable to the long-term effects of ethnic boundaries within a broader context of localized coastal identity. At the same time, I also hypothesize that AAVE in Hyde County is moving away from that local dialect identity towards a more uniform AAVE norm as part of the larger cultural …
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Inventing George Whitefield: Celebrity and the making of a religious icon
… well beyond national, denominational, racial and ethnic boundaries. The extent of his influence meant that his public image took on a life of his own. It also meant that his legacy was profoundly malleable. After his death, it also meant that, as a public symbol, his image had numerous possible …
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The Ashley Series as Native American Persistence: Lowcountry Indians in the Period of European Expansion
… and the desire to maintain their unique ethnic boundaries and ties to their history during a period of uncertainty.</p>
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Jewish converts, their communities and experiences of social inclusion and exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa
… seek minority status by converting into an ethnic-religious minority group. Taking a social constructionist approach to understanding religious conversion, it is argued that religious conversion to Orthodox Judaism is also a social process of becoming ethnically "Jewish". In this study, two …
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Jugenddelinquenz im interethnischen Vergleich : Erklärungsmöglichkeiten delinquenten Verhaltens einheimischer und immigrierter Jugendlicher
… the socio-economic conditions of youths from ethnic minority groups and compares the social correlates of delinquent behaviour in these ethnic groups. The aim of this analysis is to prove the generality of theories across ethnic boundaries explaining delinquency, and to identify certain …
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Ethnic identity negotiation through dialogical self: the case of Anywaa and Nuer evangelicals in Gambella, Ethiopia
This study explores the ethnic identity negotiation of Anywaa and Nuer Evangelical Christians in the Gambella region, Ethiopia, using the Dialogical Self Theory. The two ethnic groups are living in conflict due to different reasons such as historical narratives and cultural differences. Though they …
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The virgin's daughters: Catholic traditions and the post-colonial south in contemporary women's writing
… of Louisiana as a place which blurs national and ethnic boundaries posits this liminal zone as both a site of historic trauma and oppression and also a position of possibility for cultural reconstruction. The urgent call to reclaim and revalue the subverted “other” within dominant myths is …
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The Internet Connectivity: 1.5 Generation Chinese Migrants and Social Capital
… social networks across the geographical and ethnic boundaries. These young migrants gain more control over the attainment of social capital - network development and resources acquisition - with the facility of the internet. The acquired social capital is crucial to addressing migrant youth's …
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The Sri Lankan Tamils - a comparative analysis of the experiences of the second generation in the UK and Sri Lanka
… caste, class, religious and most importantly ethnic boundaries. The number of individuals choosing to marry out is increasing, yet this appears to be more accepted in Sri Lanka than the UK. Both in Sri Lanka and the UK cultural traits like the coming of age ceremony are gradually declining, …
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Missions and social identities in the Lower Orange River Basin, 1760-1998
… and alienated. In studies of the role of ethnicity in the creation and reinforcement of social identity there is very often the assumption that social cohesion arises from similarity and that actual or perceived differences lead people to identify one another as members of opposing ethnic …
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The Woman in the Garden: Representations of Femininity and Domestic Gardens in Nineteenth Century Writing and Twentieth Century Film
… and forge a friendship which crosses class and ethnic boundaries, against a background of possession and prevailing definitions of what it means to be feminine.