Many African and Islamic cultures have claimed that human rights have historically been a part of their societies' thinking and practices pre-UDHR. ... Competing religious traditions would not have been able to agree on language to describe human rights from a common existence under 'God', and communist delegations would have outright vetoed such a reference. ... 'Traditionalism' is generally used when referring to an 'African', 'Islamic', 'Hindu' or 'Asian' perspective. ... An example of this is some traditional African soc...

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During the heyday of Atlantic slavery, a range of European countries established small forts on the East and West African coasts. ... Historian Ira Berlin has called members of these communities Atlantic Creoles because of their connections to different African and European social and political networks. ... Europe was still rapidly developing and therefore needed the raw materials that Africa had to offer. ... Various precolonial African social orders had towns and little urban areas. ... Amid imperialism, urbanization happened decently quickly in numerous African provinces. ...

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The only two European immigrant groups that remained isolated were the Germans and the Jews "the Germans being feared because their massive numbers and different language posed a threat to the dominance of the nascent pseudo-English culture, and the Jews being excluded because of their faith. ... The years from 1700-1750 saw a dramatic rise in the African slave population, with more than 250,000 being forcibly transplanted to the American continent. The demographic impact cannot be overstated: southern colonies that were almost completely devoid of Africans in 1680 were 30-40% slaves by 1...

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Calypso strong ties to the traditional carnival celebration also provide a strong source of continuity for the musical genre along with folk song and African and Indian based classical forms, cross –cultural has so much closeness with calypso music calypso drew upon African and French influences and became the voice of the people. ... Cynthia Mahabir about the usage of aggressive and confrontational language in calypso music was used as a powerful form of political protest and organization. ...

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Likewise in Ferguson, the fatal shooting of African American Michael Brown by a white police officer on the 9th of August last year was seen as a catalyst for the events which followed. In both riots, gender and intersectional politics were both evident in the nature of the riots and in the discourse and language employed by rioters and the media. ...

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When large segments of populations are displaced by natural or man-made disasters, people become separated from time-honored roots of language, culture, and social bonds. As a result, displaced peoples are forced to create new social and economic relations in the areas to which they re-locate, as we...

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