The people of India use lots of herbs and spices, and they boast a large variety of different dishes. ... The national flag in India was used from 1947, it is tricolor of deep saffron, white and green, with horizontal bands, that are green at the bottom. In the middle of the white band is a blue wheel, the chakra. ... The Taj Mahal features a mosque, gardens and tombs for other people close to the emperor. ... And to be aware of their own culture and beliefs that shape the people they become. ...

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Much of white culture is built on stamping out culture that isn't white or white enough. ... Noda is frustrated because her face announces itself to the prejudice people. Noda uses an example to illustrate the poor judgment of people in American society and how they form their opinion based on the other person's face and looks. ... She feels that people are ignorant and they judge people by their looks. ... Noda writes about the society of stereotypes that treat Asian American with prejudice and how people make judgments about you just by your looks. ...

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Racism as practised against Aborigines, has been defined as; "Conscious or unconscious belief in the inherent superiority of people whose descent is of European background, which entitles all white people to a position of dominance or privilege determined by racial origin." ... Through Davis" construction of the white dominant value system, he does not present them with human qualities, conveying that white authorities showed no remorse in their demoralising actions against Aboriginals. ... He dies ultimately challenging white administration, who do not bother to...

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The story talks of a young white woman, Eugenia, who has a close relationship with her black maid. ... Pratt makes a quick statement about the "contact zone", stating that its art (usually made by the oppressed) usually shows an image of the other people (oppressors) from the view of the first (oppressed) people. ... In the film, you see that the white bosses feel that they do indeed treat their maids fairly. ... This belief appears in Hilly's "Home Help Sanitation Initiative", a plan to legislate mandatory separate toilets for black domestic help because "black people carry diff...

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He gradually earns the respect of these native people who rename him Dances With Wolves and he sheds his white ways in acceptance of their way of life. ... They are normal people who think and feel, a people eager to laugh, devoted to family and deeply troubled with the disappearance of the buffalo, their principal source of food and material culture. ... He claims that the strict attention paid to language in the film makes easier for the Lakota people to speak in their own voice. ... Firstly, they both concur that despite all of the film's good intent...

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Whilst law is still present in Weller's short stories, a white system of law is forced upon them instead. ... It is clear that the aboriginal society is frustrated at the corruption in the laws that are forced upon them by the white society, but they know that they are helpless as white people appear far more dominant in the post-colonial community. ... Weller suggests that much of the aboriginal culture has been lost; this is a direct and disastrous result of white colonialism. ... Weller suggests that much of this connection has been lost as a result of white colonialism. ... The film s...

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Long before the white man set foot on Canadian and Saskatchewan soil, the Indians, or rather the Native Canadians had been living in North America. ... The Natives regarded their white-complexioned visitors as something of a marvel. ... In exchange for items such as firs and beaver pelts to dress the upper-class of settling Europeans, the white people gave the Indian nomads small amounts of land to settle on, called reserves, and useless amounts of paper money that the Indians had no use for. A planned assimilation had already started, causing a growing strife between the white man and the n...

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In the beginning the public school system was designed by white people for white people. ... Culture is defined as the shared perceptions, experiences, beliefs, knowledge, values, norms, and social forms of a group of people.1 At the time when African Americans entered the public school system it was the intent to civilize the population. ... Once school desegregation occurred black children were in classroom with white children for the first time and often with their first accredited teacher. White teachers were uncomfortable with the black children in their classrooms. ... This unfortu...

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Hall begins with a discussion of the people who were originally sent to Louisiana to colonize. She discusses how criminals and the generally unwanted people in French pre-revolutionary society were sent to colonize this area. She gives numerous documents and accounts of how these people were deported to Louisiana instead of being put to death. ... As such the French government deported many people and sent soldiers there as a punishment for deserting. ... The African population so heavily outnumbered the white that to use any other for internal trade would be ridiculous. ...

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Walton (2008) writes about how poetry is often looked over in high school and not given enough care for people to really read into what an author is trying to portray. ... Poetry is one form of literature that takes on different meaning to different people, fantasy often takes a deeper look and open mind to form an understanding as well. ... She had white hair. Not white-blond, not platinum. White as snow, white as the finest marble....

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Thus the notions of poverty and affluence are not fixed, and again as the text mentions, wealth is not an absolute but is a relationship between people . ... Similarly we define "white" and "white" activities as not "black" or not yellow, with the implied notion being that "whites" are at the top of the human evolutionary chain. ... The drug has no beneficial properties save for the enjoyment people gain from it and the relative few who use it to ease pain, yet Canadian culture has seen a gradual shift to accepting a drug that was once as illicit as crack is now. ... Since "white" wealth...

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They give people a distorted sense of reality. ... Where the woman is standing is all in black and white, yet the bottle is glowing from the rays of a beautiful sunset. ... This says to me that smart people drink Chivas and they already know to be responsible. ... It is black and white and really boring. ... Both ads also show the product almost as if you took the people and the words out of the ad they could still market the product. ...

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At the top of the stairs there is the reflection of white light gleaming on the wall. ... In the centre in bold white writing is the name of the scent "Night", the maker or designer and a tag line as mentioned above. ... The colours red and black are used often in sexy lingerie and sex aids, certainly in comparison with white which is seen as pure and virginal, and therefore have been accepted by our society whether they derived from nature or not as having sexual connotations. ... The audience or consumer will automatically think of everything that happens at night, people tend to take part i...

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Today, many people havebelieved that the bag is full of gold. ... Many people think that these images encouraged people to donate money to receive blessings. ... The use of soft paste porcelain is evident on the Buddha's skin, which is particularly pale and white. ... The Buddha has a beautiful white robe with colorful patterns of yellow, blue, green, orange flowers and black irregular dots. ... This would increase their sales to the rich people. ...

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I believe that because of the development of multiculturalism, it helps people to increase their knowledge of the world. ... People can enjoy eating different types of cultural foods, for example Chinese foods, and learn different kind of perspectives from other people. ... In first chapter, Ronald Takaki did explain the stereotypes and prejudices of white people. ... If native people are seen as savage and uncivilized, this gave the civilized people an idea to do whatever they wish because the natives are not seen as human. ... In his book, A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural...

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The land is not separate from nature, people, the heavens, ancient stories. ... There are other bosses who have power over people down the triangle. ... 'Old Aboriginal people have often stated that White Australians 'have no Dreaming', that is, they have no collective spiritual identity, together with no true understanding of having a correct or 'proper' relationship with land/reality' (Graham, 1999). ... They do not wish for it to be an exclusive part of Indigenous peoples and do want to see pattern thinking become an integral part of all peoples in Australia...

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There are many types of cultures that define different types of people. ... He is invisible to white community in the book. ... My friends are the people who have the biggest impact on what my pleasures are. ... These people are people I look up to that went through cultural rejection. ... His friends and family influenced Martin Luther King Jr. seeing how poorly his family was treated and how he couldn't play with his white friends influenced h...

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With the publication of Shakespeare's original text, people saw a kinder, gentler Caliban. ... This view was widely accepted; however, few critics of that day showed sympathy toward Native Americans because they still described Caliban as a wild creature who had developed from a savage into a civilized under Prospero's education, as Native Americans under the white's enigmas. ... However, people became aware of new issues. ... His attempt on Minanda's virtue made him "the first nonwhite rapist in white man's literate" and his freedom song was "the first American p...

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There indeed is a significant difference between people who immigrate and people who were born here. ... Why is it that hyphenation is imposed only on non-white Americans? ... The way people dressed, spoke and carried themselves fascinated me. ... In addition, media might alter people's perceptions. ... It educates people informally in varying ways. ...

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In the U.S it is made up of many people and demographic shifts. ... And that white people are much better qualified for the position. ... People don't think that the way we speak sometimes makes a person perceive what we are saying a certain way. ... Thayer attacked the Mr. by saying you didn't protect me, you let him molest, you didn't want people you work with to see us on the news and know you're black. ... Cabot explaining to her friend that she is lonely, and angry and that is why she acts out and treats people the way she does. ...

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(Cruz, 153) Religion influence people in many ways, people believe in their religion, and sometimes deny the existence of other religions. Furthermore, people fights for their religion their religion beliefs structure, breathes it, and sometimes even are capable of killing in the name of their religion. Religion is present all the time, and its rules also prevail in people´s lives, especially in women lives, where they seem to be in the eye of the hurricane. ... The problem is that when people, especially women, do not follow these steps, they are hardly criticized. In the past, as in pr...

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Cultural Perspectives in "Mariah" Whether it is realized or not, people view the world they reside in by means of their cultural experiences. ... While they are dining, the narrator realizes that "the other people sitting down to eat dinner all looked like Mariah's relatives; the people waiting on them all looked like mine" (Kincaid 1222). ... This convention is normal to both Mariah and the other white passengers; the narrator only notices it since her culture differs from theirs. ... (Kincaid 1217), relaying her personal inability to understand or relate with this new culture and ...

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.  Throughout the world today, there are an indefinite amount of cultures to which people belong. ... Based on my statement above, the African American magazine would, more than likely, have more African American employees than those of white or Asian origin. ... A state wide magazine requires things such as an entire staff of sales and production people. ... A money making magazine is not only a common cause that a group of people, with many different jobs, work towards, but an environment where these certain people make their product work for them, in-return producing a large qua...

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I come from the land of the long white cloud and I am proud to be Māori, the natives of New Zealand. ... We are very spiritual people who are rich in song, dance, carving, and weaving. ... Māori people believe in sacred (tapu) things, object, and spirits. ... All of these define what type of people we are. Māori people and other Polynesian cultures are renown for being strong, caring, and loving to others. ...

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These people come from all over the world to enter our country and be a part of our diverse culture. ... Asians are now living here in the US and according to many recent studies they are on average making more that the average white. ... There is not as much written or studied about these people compared to other cultures. ... They are people who identify themselves with their surroundings and are in touch with their spiritual side. ... The Native-Americans on the other hand view the women in their culture as beautiful people who help them in living. ...

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