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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"ethno-cultural"”.
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Accommodating the Ethno-cultural Differences of Students: An Analysis of Ontario Community Colleges
This study relies on qualitative research: open-ended, semi-structured interviews were used to gain insight into the experiences of students of ethnically diverse backgrounds from three Greater Toronto Area (GTA) community colleges. Additional data were collected from college websites and meetings …
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Conscription, the National Identity Enigma, and the Politics of Ethno-Cultural Cleavage in Canada During World War Ii
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A critical examination of the academic trajectories of ESL youth
… baseline. ESL students are disaggregated by ethno-cultural background, English proficiency, gender, age on entry to the BC school system, and socio-economic status. School population effects are also considered. The dependent variables are five and six-year graduation rates, and participation …
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Recreation policies and programs for new immigrants to Canada
… The document analysis revealed opportunities for ethno-cultural recreation practices may be constrained by dominant values and norms entrenched in government policies and documents. Absent from the recreation policies were recommendations to preserve and enhance the multicultural heritage of …
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Cultural diversity and indigenous peoples' land claims: argumentative dynamics and jurisprudential approach in the Americas
… of the argumentative logic behind the multiculturalist proposal for equally divided societies, among equally positioned ethno-cultural groups. A critical and analytical review of the multiculturalist argumentative constructions shows that its justification lies on the dogmatic assumption of …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
… Huggan, and R. Radhakrishnan regarding multiculturalism, identity politics, and diaspora studies. Huggan and Radhakrishnan's insights are especially useful because their work deals with the South Asian diaspora, in England and the United States, respectively. After setting up a theoretical …
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German Nationality: an Illustration of Institutionalized Discrimination
… on German Nationality as an example of deepening ethno-cultural self-understanding institutionalized by the state that results in the discrimination of millions of foreign residents based solely on nationality.
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Schizotypy: A Multi-Country Study of Psychometrics, Socio-Cultural Influences, Cognitive Processes, and Electrophysiological Markers
… investigating schizotypal measurement across ethno-cultural settings, examining cognitive antecedents and outcomes of schizotypy, and a schizotypal-continuum exploration into electrophysiological function. Studies 1-3 examined the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ) as a measurement …
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Trails by a river: for large orchestra and electronic sounds (MAX/MSP)
… a work that represents a style with a specific ethno-cultural background, the rhythmic foundations of certain parts are derived from some modern Afro-Brazilian folk genres, such as candomblé, mostly present in the Northeastern part of that country. The electronic part is conceived as a timbral …
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Political Affiliations of American Economic Elites: Wayne County, Michigan, 1844, 1860, as a Test Case
… discovered which indicate that religious and ethno-cultural influences among certain groups affected political behavior more strongly than did economic factors. At the same time, other groups may have been influenced by their economic class position. When similar studies have been undertaken, …
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Multiculturalism and identity in Canada : a case-study of Ukrainian-Canadians
… Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) – a national ethno-cultural organisation that ostensibly represents over one million Canadians of Ukrainian heritage and a historically important player in the development of multiculturalism in Canada. The impetus for such an analysis is to explore whether …
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Immigrated Russian Jewish elites in Israel and Germany after 1990
… States and Germany) they are well-known for cultural self-assertion, strong social upward mobility and manifold forms of self organisation and empowerment. Using Suzanne Kellers sociological model of “Strategic Elites”, it easily becomes clear that a huge share of the Russian Jewish …
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Horace Kallen Confronts America: Jewish Identity in Discursive Formation
… seen as rooted in an evolving and diversified ethno-cultural process, is inextricably intertwined with the formative discourses of twentieth-century Jewish American life.
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Central Asian Civil Society: Dynamics of Associational Life in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
… the state. The study draws upon a multi-locale ethnography in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan including in-depth and focus group interviews, participant observations, case studies, and archival research. I have investigated associations whose activities are concerned with reciprocal relations within …
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A centripetal formula for Turkey : a multiculturalist proposal for the resolution of the republic’s long-running Kurdish question
… territorial pluralism, centripetalism is a multiculturalist way of managing ethno-cultural diversity. Many scholars have examined how a consociational or territorial pluralist formula might help Turkey to resolve its long-running Kurdish problem. To date, no one has paid enough attention to the …
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"De par chez nous:" Fiddling Traditions and Acadian Identity on Prince Edward Island
… community are a matter of some debate, yet the cultural identity of the Acadians of Prince Edward Island in the twenty-first century appears to have remained intact. Contrary to a popular discourse of identity "revival," this distinct culture is neither a recent phenomenon nor is it something …
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Prevalence of traditional Chinese medicine and other complementary and alternative medicine use among Chinese cancer patients in British Columbia, Canada
… TCM/CAM use, socio-demographics, and medical and cultural factors. Results: Ninety-one patients completed the questionnaire. The majority of respondents (90%) were born outside of Canada and 64% completed the questionnaire in Chinese. TCM/CAM was used by 44% of respondents. Herbal remedies, …
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Ethnicising Ulster’s Protestants: Tolerance, Peoplehood, and Class in Ulster-Scots Ethnopedagogy
… in Northern Ireland had undergone something of a cultural turn: the armed struggle over constitutional and civil rights questions began in the eighties to be ‘ethnically framed’ (Brubaker 2004:166). With cultural identity politically potent, the conception of an Ulster-Scots ethnic group began to …
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The World Asked, Who am I?: A study focused on Latino Identity and Self Esteem
… created as a new tool to measure opinions about ethno-cultural portrayal. This thesis aims to clarify how Latino people's self-esteem is shaped by the perceived realism of media depictions, drawing on Social Identity Theory and Social Learning Theory. This thesis examines how Latinos are …
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O direito a um passado na luta para existir no presente: disputas pela memória indígena nas escritas da História do Rio Grande do Norte (1994-2021)
… which admitted a disappearance of these ethno-cultural identities in the state. In view of this, the objective of this research was to investigate how the memory of the indigenous disappearance in Rio Grande do Norte after the process of ethnic emergence of indigenous peoples in the state …
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