Sentences with phrase «shaped by immigrant»

The Ethiopian artist Aida Muluneh's Sai Mado, The Distant Gaze, deals with the ways in which identity and memory are shaped by immigrant experiences.

Talk about your own family's immigrant experience («Great - Grandma came from Italy and had to work very hard» or some such) or talk about the ways our world has been shaped by immigrants («What would life be like today without pizza?»).

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Canada's past has been shaped by various waves of immigrants coming from the Asia Pacific region.

I hope he sees how deeply shaped we are — as a city and as a people — by the immigrant experience.

«The character of the great Borough of Queens has always been shaped by the tremendous economic, social, cultural and civic contributions from immigrants hailing from all over the world,» Borough President Katz said.

Richmond's ethnic organizations started to take shape in the 1990s, after its low housing prices attracted immigrants from a wide range of countries, as well as Latinos displaced by San Francisco's gentrification.

Thus he became a symbol of another of the great themes of the century: how history was shaped by tides of immigrants, so many of them destined for greatness, who fled oppressive regimes for the freedom of democratic climes.

experience has undoubtedly shaped Rodriguez — a first - generation American immigrant from Panama who was transformed by public education — inspiring him to pursue not only an education career but also his own education as a leader.

«Our future will be shaped in part by how we manage the education of immigrant origin youth.»

But the tango began more than a century ago as a folk dance in Argentina, crude and defiant, shaped by former slaves and European immigrants, and infused with a luridness that caused authorities to ban it in public.

At a moment when South Asian communities, women, and immigrant neighborhoods like the Lower East Side are being targeted by an evidence - averse administration, this exhibition reflects on the complex global and personal histories that shape conflicting views of our contemporary moment.

«The social, political, and cultural landscape of America has been shaped by generations of immigrant contributions,» Marica Vilcek, the cofounder and vice chairman of the Vilcek Foundation, said in a statement.