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..., exacerbating social inequality among groups. Using data from the 1996 Canadian Census Public U... component of wealth for most North American households (Adams 1987; Parcel 1982), bringing wit...
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... norms or rules for certain individuals or groups (immigrants or not) possessing some sort of distin... survival and development in the North American environment and in the context of globalization. .... worth noting that I avoid using the term "ethnic group" or "cultural community". These concepts pre...
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Intercultural communicative competence has been widely accepted as the aim of EFL teaching. In order to obtain this competence, Culture teaching must be implemented in the college English teaching. Textbooks have played a very important role in the course of teaching and learning. Textbooks introduce students the cultures of different countries and regions, thus making it convenient for students to exert a relatively remarkable influence on the fostering of students' cultural awareness and competence of intercultural communication. This paper focuses on the content analysis of the cultural content in College English (New) (henceforth, CE (New)).
... group (social class, regional identity, ethnic minorities). b) Social interaction (differing leve... of the 64 texts is that: the number of American writers is 57, which makes up 89.06%; the number o... about the "social identity and social groups" in the whole pre-reading parts, which makes up 72...
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The Meeting House has become well-known to many Torontonians because of its informal style and absence of defensiveness in the face of other points of view. [Bruxy Cavey], who looks a bit like a 1960s hippie with long, flowing locks, has written a book called The End of Religion, and the church's website carries in prominent type, "Has religion turned you off?" In his teaching, he works hard at overcoming barriers to faith while remaining surprisingly orthodox. It's a church for people "who are not into church," he says. The most recent extension of The Meeting House was opened in Ottawa last fall.
In Kelowna, B.C., the Willow Park Church, a Mennonite Brethren congregation with teaching pastor Mark Burch, meets at four campuses scattered around the area. A leadership staff of 14 work ...
... a few years ago about evangelicalism in America, historian Mark Noll defined it as "culturally ada... the basis of our fellowship across so many ethnic, cultural, national and denominational divides." T... needs of people in the places that groups meet. Chartwell Baptist Church, another multi-site...
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... kind of living standards enjoyed in North America and other advanced industrialized regions. In the ... tensions between different social and ethnic groups, the lack of transparency and political ref...
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The paper mainly analyzes the importance of ethnic dress from the perspective of the application of ethnic costume's form and various features in modern fashion design to fully acknowledge that national costumes are the inexhaustible source of inspiration for designing creation. Only by understanding, inheriting and enhancing the essence of ethnic costume, we can transfer it into the culture of modern fashion design, and gain enlightenment to integrate the culture of traditional ethnic dress with that of modern fashion.
... Nordic and the Eastern European); South America topic (Indiana, Mexico, etc.); Africa subject and ... calculated in 1982, in the 55 ethnic groups, the Zhuang is the largest in population, about 13...
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In February 1926, American historian Carter G. Woodson launched an event call... doesn't keep records of its adherents' ethnic backgrounds. However, there have been some signifi..., culture, ethnic group, majority/minority groups, racism, racial prejudice and racial discriminatio...
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...It has always had an ethnic or racial character: a high proportion of the poor... businessmen" and members of "professional groups" thought to possess "influence" (Gerson 1957, 6). ...Throughout North America in recent years public housing has been bulldozed,...
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... the overrepresentation extends to other groups including Black Canadians (Wortley and Tanner 2003...In the American literature on the subject, there are two dominant ... equally regardless of their race or ethnicity; and as a consequence, controlling for self-report...
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... the province's various Aboriginal identity groups and with the rest of Canada. . While lively debate... among the children and grandchildren of American ex-slaves. They left farms in southern states in s... the last half-century is due in part to "ethnic identity migration." As prejudice against Aborigin...