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Chinese Americans are residents or citizens of the United States who are of Chinese descent. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and are a subgroup of Asian Americans. Numbering 2.3 million in 2000, Chinese Americans make up 22.4% of Asian Americans (larger than any other Asian American subgroup), and constitute slightly less than 1% of the United States as a whole. Chinese American - Immigration. Main article: Chinese immigration to the United States Chinese immigration ...

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• Chinese American - Immigration
• Chinese American - Citizenship
• Chinese American - Life in America
• Chinese American - Major contributions
• Chinese American - Influence on American culture
• Chinese American - Demographics
• Chinese American - Different Chinese American identities
• Chinese American - Ethnic affiliation
• Chinese American - Cultural affiliation
• Chinese American - Bicultural identity
• Chinese American - Politics
• Chinese American - Racial discrimination

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Chinese Americans have made many large strides in their lives in America. Today, Chinese Americans engage in every facets of American life, from elected office, to military, to media, to academics, to sports. There are those Chinese Americans (along with other Asian Americans) who have over the years adapted to the American lifestyle and are assimilated into the American melting pot with no noticeable physical traits (e.g. children with blonde hair and blue eyes or children who are mistaken for being of African American descent as oppose to being Chinese American or Asian American). Whereas others choose to remai ...

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Chinese American, Chinese American - Immigration, Chinese American - Citizenship, Chinese American - Life in America, Chinese American - Major contributions, Chinese American - Influence on American culture, Chinese American - Demographics, Chinese American - Different Chinese American identities, Chinese American - Ethnic affiliation, Chinese American - Cultural affiliation, Chinese American - Bicultural identity, Chinese American - Politics, Chinese American - Racial discrimination

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The validity of human races is a subject of much debate. The American Anthropological Association, drawing on biological research, states that "The concept of race is a social and cultural construction. . . . Race simply cannot be tested or proven scientifically," and that, "It is clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups. The concept of 'race' has no validity . . . in the human species." Most anthropoligists argue that race definitions are imprecise, arbitrary, derived f ...

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• Validity of human races - History of challenges to racial validity
• Validity of human races - Arguments against racial validity
• Validity of human races - Genetic variation
• Validity of human races - Race as a social construct and populationism
• Validity of human races - Arguments for racial validity
• Validity of human races - Genetic definitions of race
• Validity of human races - Footnotes

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Viz is a popular British adult spoof comic magazine. The comic's style parodies the strait-laced British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with very adult language, crude toilet humour and either sexual or violent story lines (and often both). It also sends up tabloid style newspapers, with mockeries of letters pages and daft competitions with rubbish prizes. It also often satirises current events and politicians, and pretends to be obsessed with celebrities, including half ...

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• Viz comic - History
• Viz comic - Regular Features
• Viz comic - Featured Strips
• Viz comic - Spoof News Stories
• Viz comic - Letterbocks
• Viz comic - Top Tips
• Viz comic - Spoof Adverts and Competitions
• Viz comic - Photo Strips
• Viz comic - Viz in other media

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Womyn is the best-known one of a number of alternate spellings intended in radical feminism (see also) misandrist circles to degender the English word women and as female empowerment. Other variants include wimmin (plural), wom!n, womban and womon (singular), while femal (from female) and humyn (human) apply the principle elsewhere. All are pronounced the same as the conventional terms. Womyn - Background. The original meaning of the English word "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz ...

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• Womyn - Background
• Womyn - Arguments
• Womyn - External link

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Censorship is the control of speech and other forms of human expression, often by government intervention. It is most commonly applied to acts which occur in public circumstances, and most formally involves suppression of ideas (by criminalizing or regulating expression). Discussion of censorship often further considers less formal means of controlling perceptions by excluding various ideas from mass communication. What is censored may range from specific words to entire concepts. The ostensible motive of censorship is to stabilize or improve t ...

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• Censorship - Censorship Types
• Censorship - State secrets and unwanted attention
• Censorship - School textbooks
• Censorship - Terms
• Censorship - Implementation
• Censorship - Prevention and bypassing
• Censorship - Censorship around the world
• Censorship - Censorship of Media
• Censorship - Other types of censorship

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The Common Era (CE), also known as the Christian Era and sometimes the Current Era, is the period of measured time beginning with the year 1 until the present. The term is used for a system of reckoning years that is chronologically equivalent to the anno Domini (AD) (Latin for "in the year of [our] Lord") system, but with less overtly religious implications. Although common era was a term first used by some Christians in an age when Christianity was the common religion of the West, it is now a term ...

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• Common Era - Chronology and notation
• Common Era - Origins
• Common Era - Usage
• Common Era - Support
• Common Era - Opposition
• Common Era - Other calendars in use

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August 15, 1945, marked Victory over Japan Day or V-J Day, taking a name similar to Victory in Europe Day, which was generally known as V-E Day. In Japan, the day is known as 終戦記念日, Shusen-kinenbi, which literally means the "Memorial day for the end of the war". The day marks the end of the Burma Campaign, the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War with the U.S., and other military conflicts in Asia. This is commemorated as Liberation Day in nations such as Korea. See Surrender of Japa ...

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• Victory over Japan Day - Famous photograph

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Underdog was an animated superhero TV show that debuted on October 3, 1964, on the NBC network and continued until 1973 for a run of approximately 120 episodes. In 1960, handling the General Mills account as an account executive with the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency in New York, W. Watts Biggers teamed with Chet Stover, Tread Covington and artist Joe Harris in the creation of television cartoon shows to sell breakfast cereals for General Mills. The shows introduced such characters as King Leonardo, Tenness ...

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• Underdog - External link

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Dead white men or DWEM (an acronym standing for "Dead White European Male"), is a pejorative term used most commonly to refer to a tradition of thought and pedagogy which stresses the importance of individual European males from the past, at the expense of other forces (economic or social, for example) or groups of people (for example, non-Europeans and women). Some of those most often included in this definition include Plato, Dante, Chri ...

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• Dead White Males - History and usage
• Dead White Males - Critics of the term
• Dead White Males - Popular culture

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Main article: Chinese immigration to the United States Chinese immigration to the United States has come in many waves. Like all the American immigration experiences, the Chinese immigration has seen both hardship and success. This experience has added richness to the American experience and is a triumphant story of the pursuit of the American Dream. ...

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Chinese American, Chinese American - Immigration, Chinese American - Citizenship, Chinese American - Life in America, Chinese American - Major contributions, Chinese American - Influence on American culture, Chinese American - Demographics, Chinese American - Different Chinese American identities, Chinese American - Ethnic affiliation, Chinese American - Cultural affiliation, Chinese American - Bicultural identity, Chinese American - Politics, Chinese American - Racial discrimination

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Daruma (達磨 or だるま) is the Japanese name for Bodhidharma. Daruma also refers to a hollow and round Japanese wish doll with no arms and legs, modelled after Bodhidharma. Typical colors are red (most common), yellow, green, and white. The doll has a face with a moustache and beard, but its eyes only contain the color white. Some dolls have written characters on the cheeks explaining the kind of wish or desire the owner has in mind, such as protection of loved ones. Th ...

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• Daruma doll - Making a wish
• Daruma doll - Controversial aspects

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Undead is a collective name for all types of supernatural entities who were once alive in the normal sense, died, and then continued to exist in the world of the living, in forms spiritual (as ghosts) or corporeal (as animated corpses). Undead of different varieties are featured in the legends of most cultures on earth and in many works of fiction, especially fantasy and horror fiction. The term "undead" was first used in this sense by Bram Stoker, as the original title for his novel Dracula. Undead - Examp ...

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• Undead - Examples of undead
• Undead - Corporeal
• Undead - Incorporeal
• Undead - Undead originating in fiction
• Undead - Creation of undead
• Undead - Undead in games and popular culture
• Undead - Defense against the undead
• Undead - Undead in philosophy

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Brainstorming is an organized approach for producing ideas by letting the mind think without interruption. The term was coined by Alex Osborn. Brainstorming - Overview. Brainstorming can be done either individually or in a group; in group brainstorming sessions, the participants are encouraged, and often expected, to share their ideas with one another as soon as they are generated. The key to brainstorming is not to interrupt the thought process. As ideas come to the mind, they are captured and stimulate th ...

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• Brainstorming - Overview
• Brainstorming - Procedure for a typical brainstorming session
• Brainstorming - Nominal group technique
• Brainstorming - Controversy

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The term "culture war" (sometimes pluralized as "the culture wars") has been used to describe ideologically-driven and often strident confrontations typical of American public culture and politics since the 1960s, but especially beginning in the 1980s. The term evokes the 19th-century German Kulturkampf. Culture war - Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America 1991. The expression gained wide use with the 1991 publication of Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Daviso ...

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• Culture war - Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America 1991
• Culture war - Buchanan's 1992 speech
• Culture war - Fourth Turning 1996
• Culture war - Campus culture wars
• Culture war - After 9/11
• Culture war - Battleground issues in the culture wars

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The United Kingdom has a number of similar but independent police services. Most of these operate in defined territorial areas (defined as Home Office police forces in England and Wales), which are typically counties, groups of counties or larger metropolitan areas. A small number of non-Home Office police forces, such as the British Transport Police and Ministry of Defence Police, have a more specialised, non-geographical remit. Policing in the United Kingdom - History. While constables had existed since Saxon ti ...

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• Policing in the United Kingdom - History
• Policing in the United Kingdom - Accountability
• Policing in the United Kingdom - Ranks
• Policing in the United Kingdom - Use of firearms
• Policing in the United Kingdom - Controversial shootings
• Policing in the United Kingdom - Uniform
• Policing in the United Kingdom - Uniform history
• Policing in the United Kingdom - Recent and current issues
• Policing in the United Kingdom - Future
• Policing in the United Kingdom - Databases

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Two incidents have energized some Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans, particularly American-born Chinese in recent years -- the murder of Vincent Chin by white automotive workers in 1982 and the unsubstantiated charges of spying against Chinese American nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1999, whom many believe was a victim of racial stereotyping. During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese Americans, like all overseas Chinese, generally speaking, were viewed as capitalist traitors by the People's R ...

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Chinese American, Chinese American - Immigration, Chinese American - Citizenship, Chinese American - Life in America, Chinese American - Major contributions, Chinese American - Influence on American culture, Chinese American - Demographics, Chinese American - Different Chinese American identities, Chinese American - Ethnic affiliation, Chinese American - Cultural affiliation, Chinese American - Bicultural identity, Chinese American - Politics, Chinese American - Racial discrimination

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Chinese Americans are divided among many subgroups based on factors such as generation, place of origin, socio-economic level, and do not have uniform attitudes about the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China or Taiwan, the United States, or Chinese nationalism, with attitudes varying widely between active support, hostility, or indifference. Different subgroups of Chinese Americans also have radically different and sometimes very conflicting political priorities and goals. It is for this reason that Chinese Americans do not have any unified politica ...

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Chinese American, Chinese American - Immigration, Chinese American - Citizenship, Chinese American - Life in America, Chinese American - Major contributions, Chinese American - Influence on American culture, Chinese American - Demographics, Chinese American - Different Chinese American identities, Chinese American - Ethnic affiliation, Chinese American - Cultural affiliation, Chinese American - Bicultural identity, Chinese American - Politics, Chinese American - Racial discrimination

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A neologism is a word, term, or phrase which has been recently created ("coined") —often to apply to new concepts, or to reshape older terms in newer language form. Neologisms are especially useful in identifying inventions, new phenomena, or old ideas which have taken on a new cultural context. Neologisms are by definition "new," and as such are often directly attributable to a specific individual, publication, period or event. The term "neologism" was itself coined around 1800; so for some time in the early 19th Century, th ...

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• Neologism - Changing culture
• Neologism - Cultural acceptance
• Neologism - Versions of neologisms
• Neologism - Types of neologism
• Neologism - Neologisms in literature
• Neologism - Quotation
• Neologism - Miscellaneous

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Antonio Gramsci (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian writer, politician, leader and theorist of Socialism, Communism and Anti-Fascism. Antonio Gramsci - Life. Gramsci was born in Ales, Italy, on the island of Sardinia, a relatively remote region of Italy that was mostly ignored by the Italian government in favor of the industrialized North. He was the fourth of seven sons of Francesco Gramsci. His father's family was Arbëreshë and probably the family name was related to Gramsh, an Albanian ...

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• Antonio Gramsci - Life
• Antonio Gramsci - Thought
• Antonio Gramsci - Hegemony
• Antonio Gramsci - Intellectuals and Education
• Antonio Gramsci - State and Civil Society
• Antonio Gramsci - Historicism
• Antonio Gramsci - Critique of 'Economism'
• Antonio Gramsci - Critique of Materialism
• Antonio Gramsci - Influence
• Antonio Gramsci - Sources

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