Sentences with phrase «ethnic cultures before»

They then studied four ethnic cultures before deciding which kind of restaurant they wanted to open.

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Turning to the cultural dimension, I would argue that American culture was moving out from under the dominance of purely Anglo - Saxon ethnic considerations even before the Revolution.

Before that Axial Period, each ethnic group had evolved its own culture and language, with its own distinctive way of understanding the world and worshipping the forces of nature.

If we understand these five sounds (which travel across cultures, races, and ethnic groups), referred to as the «precry» stage, we can understand what a baby needs before the full - blown crying begins - what Dunstan calls the «siren.»

A time to commemorate the struggles of those who have come before us and those who have delivered what we today call our ethnic extraction, our culture, our civilization, indeed our heritage that we hold so dear.»

Although the documents are organized chronologically as the years just before or during the Civil War, the archive contains rich material for teachers and researchers interested in exploring other important themes in American History, such as slavery, immigration, ethnic groups, women's lives, reform movements, economic development, and political culture.

Indigenous or aboriginal peoples are so - called because they were living on their lands before settlers came from elsewhere; they are the descendants — according to one definition — of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived, the new arrivals later becoming dominant through conquest, occupation, settlement or other means... (I) ndigenous peoples have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics which are clearly distinct from those of the other segments of the national populations.