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| | American Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Five hundred thousand American Jews (or half of all Jewish males between 18 and 50) fought in World War II, and after the war, Jewish families joined the new trend of suburbanization. | | | Some American communities of Iranian Jews, notably the large group in and around Los Angeles, CA and Beverly Hills, primarily speak Persian in the home and synagogue and support Persian newspapers. | | | In recent years, there has been a noticeable trend of secular Jewish Americans returning to a more religious Orthodox lifestyle, called Baal teshuva, although it is not clear how widespread or demographically important this movement is. |
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| | Caucasian race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The concept of a "Caucasian race" or Varietas Caucasia (sic) was first proposed under those names by the German scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840). | | | Nowadays, however, views have changed, and large numbers of people do not wish to identify themselves as a particular race. | | | Caucasians typically have the lowest degree of projection of the alveolar bones which contain the teeth, a notable size prominence of the cranium and forehead region, and a projection of the midfacial region. |
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| | Arab American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Arab Americans are Americans of Arab ancestry and constitute an ethnicity made up of several waves of immigrants from 22 Arab countries, stretching from Morocco in the west to Oman in the east. | | | While the overwhelming majority of the population of the Middle Eastern region, and, in particular, the countries of the Arab world, are identified as adherents of Islam, the vast majority of Arab Americans are Christian, not Muslim. | | | The largest Arab American religious community is comprised by Maronite Catholics (Eastern Rite) who account for 42%, followed by Orthodox Christians and Muslims, each accounting for 23% of the Arab American population. |
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| | Chinese American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Chinese Americans have also strongly influenced politics in the Republic of China. | | | Increasingly, Chinese Americans were seen as sources of business and technical expertise and capital who could aid in China's development (economic and otherwise). | | | During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese Americans, like all overseas Chinese, generally speaking, were viewed as capitalist traitors by the People's Republic of China government. |
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| | African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | During Reconstruction, African Americans in the South obtained the right to vote and to hold public office, as well as a number of other civil rights they previously had been denied. | | | African Americans have significantly improved their social and economic standing since the Civil War, and even more so since the Civil Rights Movement, and recent decades have witnessed the expansion of a robust, African American middle class across the United States. | | | Although in the same year African Americans were over-represented among the nation's poor, this was directly related to the disproportionate percentage of African American families headed by single women; such families are collectively poorer, regardless of ethnicity [9]. |
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| | American Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The tendency of highly patriotic Americans is to deny such abuses and even assert that they could never exist in their country. | | | This latter point of view is often identified with American isolationism, in the tradition of either the Old Right (Buchanan), or libertarianism (for example, Justin Raimondo). | | | But the connection between imperial politics and culture in North America, and in particular in the United States, is astonishingly direct." He identifies the way non-Americans, particularly non-Westerns, are usually conceived of in the US as tacitly racist, in a way that allows imperialism to be justified through such ideas as the White Man's Burden. |
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| | Project for the New American Century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The letter also stated "American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council." The letter argues that an Iraq war would be justified by Saddam Hussein's defiance of UN "containment" policy and his persistent threat to U.S. interests. | | | Some have raised concerns that the project has been proposing military and economic domination of land, space, and cyberspace by the United States, so as to establish American dominance in world affairs (Pax Americana) for the future—hence the term "the New American Century", based on the idea that the 20th century was the American Century. | | | Gary Bauer, former presidential candidate, president of American Values |
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| | Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This movement also provided a framework for the American and French Revolutions, as well as leading to the rise of capitalism and the birth of socialism. | | | The Enlightenment is held, in this view, to be the source of critical ideas, such as the centrality of freedom, democracy and reason as being the primary values of a society. | | | This view argues that the establishment of a contractual basis of rights would lead to the market mechanism and capitalism, the scientific method, religious and racial tolerance, and the organization of states into self-governing republics through democratic means. |
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| | American exceptionalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | American exceptionalism is the idea that the United States and the American people hold a special place in the world, by offering opportunity and hope for humanity, derived from a unique balance of public and private interests governed by constitutional ideals that are focused on personal and economic freedom. | | | Because American existence as an influential and powerful society is due to its vast resources, the story of how common American ethos is itself due to its vast resources; the current state of development being the culmination of an opportunity for 15th to 20th-century Europeans upon the discovery of the New World. | | | The degree to which American nationalism has the power to crush or overwhelm other forms of nationalism is widely seen as being American cultural and economic imperialism. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Jewish Americans |
| | The contemporary American Jewish community is descended largely from central European Jews who immigrated in the mid-19th century and, particularly,... | | | Jewish Americans, Jews who live in the United States. | | | Many Jewish Americans practice Judaism, the Jewish religion. |
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| | Italian American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1891, eleven Italian Americans in New Orleans were lynched when they were suspected of being involved in the Mafia. | | | Author Lawrence Distasi argues that the loss of spoken Italian among the Italian American population can be tied to US government pressures during World War II. | | | Because the Italian of Italian Americans comes from a time just after the unification of the state, their language is in many ways anachronistic and demonstrates what the dialects of Southern Italy used to be, before the assimilating programs of the north. |
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| | American Jews and Israel's Development |
| | Two-thirds of American Jews have never been to Israel yet, and in 1995, 51 percent felt that it was of prime importance "to be a part of the Jewish people." Only two percent reported that their sense of belonging to the Jewish people expressed itself in a special love for Israel. | | | In the eyes of the American Jews, the building of a homeland for all Jews applied only to the persecuted Jews — that is to say, not to them. | | | According to one poll by the American Jewish Committee in January 1996, 79 percent of American Jews were for the continuation of the Oslo peace process under Yitzhak Rabin. |
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| | holocaust. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| | Holocaust The genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II: “Israel emerged from the Holocaust and is defined in relation to that catastrophe” (Emanuel Litvinoff). | | | •When capitalized Holocaust refers specifically to the destruction of Jews and other Europeans by the Nazis and may also encompass the Nazi persecution of Jews that preceded the outbreak of the war. | | | Totality of destruction has been central to the meaning of holocaust since it first appeared in Middle English in the 14th century, used in reference to the biblical sacrifice in which a male animal was wholly burnt on the altar in worship of God. |
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| | African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | During Reconstruction, African Americans in the South obtained the right to vote and to hold public office, as well as a number of other civil rights they previously had been denied. | | | The desperate conditions of African Americans in the South that sparked the Great Migration of the early 20th century, combined with a growing African American intellectual and cultural elite in the Northern United States, led to a movement to fight violence and discrimination against African Americans that, like abolitionism before it, crossed racial lines. | | | Although in the same year African Americans were over-represented among the nation's poor, this was directly related to the disproportionate percentage of African American families headed by single women; such families are collectively poorer, regardless of ethnicity [9]. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: America |
| | Though the subject of much speculation, no trace of a submerged continent, or part of the American Continent of which Antilles would be the remnant, has so far been discovered. | | | As in one of them his first voyage is placed in 1497-98, and he there claims to have touched the American continent, it would give him the priority over Columbus (a claim, however, Vespucci never advanced). | | | American linguists are constantly progressing, and much of what now appears well-established is liable to be over thrown in the future. |
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| | Ideas of the American Labor Movement |
| | American workers, far from being preoccupied with material gain, seem to have been inspired by a glorious idea: that those who labored were to control their economic destiny, and through such control preserve the American republic, the world's most remarkable experiment in popular liberty. | | | The American revolutionaries viewed unchecked government powerit appeared to them in the form of George Ill‑as the greatest threat to personal liberty, and they were determined to establish a republic immune to such tyranny. | | | The vindication and glorification of American principles of government, as proclaimed to the world in the Declaration of Independence is.the high purpose of this convocation."" This kind of language remained a constant throughout the next twenty years when Debs built the American socialist movement into something of political consequence. |
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| | The relationship of Jews and the American Communist Party (CPUSA) is particularly interesting because a concern with Communist subversion under the direction of the Soviet Union was a feature of the immigration debates of the 1920s and because a substantial proportion of the CPUSA were foreign born. | | | Charles Silberman (1985, 350) notes that 'American Jews are committed to cultural tolerance because of their belief'one firmly rooted in history'that Jews are safe only in a society acceptant of a wide range of attitudes and behaviors, as well as a diversity of religious and ethnic groups. | | | Americanism is the spirit behind the welcome that America has traditionally extended to people of all races, all religions, all nationalities (in Cohen 1972, p. |
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| | German Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Numbering over 47 million, German Americans are the largest self-reported ethnic group in the United States. | | | [13] The war evoked complex reactions among German Americans at the time, many of whom severed relationships with relatives in Europe and downplayed their ethnic heritage to blend with prevailing American culture. | | | [7] [8] Under the still active Alien Enemy Act of 1798 the United States government interned nearly 11,000 German Americans between 1940 and 1948. |
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| | Apostasy Among American Jews |
| | A majority of American Jews have begun to replace their source of tradition and life style from a Jewish background to that of the assimilated Christian. | | | American Jewry has been generally defined as liberally but when questioning the respondents in this survey we have found converts to be the most liberal of all. | | | The most assimilated into Christian society a Jew is, the easier the transition becomes from Judaism to Christianity. |
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| | American Jews |
| | In some states Jews are more or less 2% of the population but in most states Jews are 1% or less of the American population. | | | Among the 10% of Jews who live a Torah-true life and who are called “orthodox” (Greek for straight belief) a great deal of money is spent on Jewish education despite the lesser average income of orthodox Jews as compared to all Jewish income. | | | Jews constitute 5.7% of the population of New Jersey, 4.9% of the people of the District of Columbia, 4.2% of Floridians, 4.4% of Massachusetts citizens, 4.1% of the people of Maryland, 3.1% in Connecticut and 2.9% in California. |
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| | The American Jewish Experience through the Nineteenth Century: Immigration and Acculturation - The Nineteenth Century - Divining America: Religion and the National Culture |
| | In the nineteenth century, American Jews, seeking to strengthen Judaism against its numerous Christian competitors in the marketplace of American religions, introduced various religious innovations, some of them borrowed from their neighbors. | | | American Judaism, at this time, became both voluntaristic and pluralistic. | | | Notwithstanding the small size of the Jewish community in early America, it is important to emphasize to students that American Jews of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, like their counterparts in the larger society, established patterns that subsequent generations carefully followed. |
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| | Holocaust Denial - Conspiracy Theories in American History |
| | Before discussing how Holocaust denial constitutes a conspiracy theory, and how the theory is distinctly American, it is important to understand what is meant by the term "Holocaust denial." Holocaust deniers, or "revisionists," as they call themselves, question all three major points of definition of the Nazi Holocaust. | | | While Holocaust denial began as a German and French conspiracy theory, its antecedents are both specifically American and an encapsulation of 2,000 years of European antisemitism. | | | While the rational observer will conclude that this is a testament to the truth of the history of the Holocaust, for the Holocaust deniers, it is merely one more piece of evidence of a conspiracy to quash what they believe to be the "real truth" about the fate of Jews during World War II. |
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| | American Dream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The American dream, along with escape from persecution or war in one's home country, has always been the primary reason for immigrants desiring to come to America. | | | George Carlin claimed during his stand up show, Life is Worth Losing, "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it". | | | The concept of the American Dream also ignores other factors of success such as luck, family, language, and wealth one is born into (although proponents of the dream would claim that starting wealth is irrelevant because of the belief that there is no level of poverty one cannot rise from with hard work). |
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| | American and British English differences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | American English is the form of English used by people in the United States and, as a lingua franca or second language, by people in many parts of the world. | | | Contents of quotations: Americans are taught to put commas and periods inside quotation marks, whereas British people will put the punctuation inside if it belongs to the quote and outside otherwise. | | | American legislators and lawyers always use the preposition "of" between the name of a legislative act and the year it was passed, while their British equivalents do not. |
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| | African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | During Reconstruction, African Americans in the South obtained the right to vote and to hold public office, as well as a number of other civil rights they previously had been denied. | | | Just as other ethnic groups in American society historically had adopted names descriptive of their families' geographical points of origin (such as Italian-American, Irish-American, Polish-American), many blacks in America expressed a preference for a similar term. | | | The desperate conditions of African Americans in the South that sparked the Great Migration of the early 20th century, combined with a growing African American intellectual and cultural elite in the Northern United States, led to a strengthening movement to fight violence and discrimination against African Americans. |
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| | Japanese American internment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Moreover, many Japanese Americans consider the efforts to justify the wartime actions to be highly offensive, on a par with Holocaust denial among Jews. | | | In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001, polls have found a third or more of the US public willing to intern Arab Americans in the way in which Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. | | | Not surprisingly, some Japanese Americans did become less loyal to the United States after the government removed them and their families from their homes and held them in internment camps. |
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| | Articles on ethnocentrism - encyclopedia article about Articles on ethnocentrism. |
| | Ethnocentrism often entails the belief that one's own race or ethnic group is the most important and/or that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups. | | | A paradigm of the academic community in the United States, particularly among anthropologists, is that enthnocentrism adversely affects one's understanding and assessment of culture, and therefore should always be avoided. | | | This term was coined by William Graham Sumner William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) was the leading American advocate of Social Darwinism. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Cuban American |
| | Numerous Cuban families lived and worked in the area known as Ybor City near Tampa, and there are many third and fourth generation Cuban Americans who trace their Cuban heritage directly to this early immigration. | | | There are now three Cuban American members of the House of Representatives, and two Senators one from Florida and the other from New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, as well as the current Secretary of Commerce. | | | From 1960 to 1979 hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees left Cuba and began a new life in America, forming the backbone of the anti-Castro movement. |
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| | American Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Before the Revolution: The 13 colonies are in red, the pink area was claimed by Great Britain after the French and Indian War, and the orange region was claimed by Spain. | | | The American Revolution is the series of events, ideas, and changes that resulted in the political separation of thirteen colonies in North America from the British Empire and the creation of the United States of America. | | | The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was one part of the revolution, but the revolution began before the first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord and continued after the British surrender at Yorktown. |
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