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Post by Jaga on Nov 9, 2008 20:35:37 GMT -7
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Post by kaima on Nov 9, 2008 20:57:52 GMT -7
My guess is a multi-cultural day in a school. My, how different the costumes look on black children. Ah, what the eye accustoms itself to.
At our local library I may have reported on the Polish display. A month or so later they had a display on Hmong, I believe, and the folk costumes were displayed on western, Caucasian mannequins. How different - and how European! - the costumes appeared!
It is a fascinating world. I remember expanding a grade school for US solder families in Germany & a Czech subcontractor looking out at the polyglot children playing and screaming for fun. He marveled at the harmony among the many colors and types, as in (then) Czechoslovakia, children remained separate and did not play together. Setting a good example like that makes a person proud of his country.
Kai
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Post by redneck on Nov 9, 2008 21:17:04 GMT -7
Kai.
are there many Hmong in Alaska? In N. central Wisconsin where I grew up, we have tens of thousands of Hmong refugees.
Tim
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Post by kaima on Nov 10, 2008 1:18:42 GMT -7
Kai. are there many Hmong in Alaska? In N. central Wisconsin where I grew up, we have tens of thousands of Hmong refugees. Tim Oh yes, there are. Just how many I have no idea, but with a quick search I see headlines saying "rapidly growing" community. Some of the clerks at my favorite grocery store are Hmong. I had to ask them, since I had no idea from the first names on tags or physical appearance or the language they speak among themselves. That reflects my otherwise total unfamiliarity with the people and the culture. We also have quite a Samoan community, and I can't identify all of the other 'minorities'. As the east coast of the US has a lot of European influence, in Alaska we have quite a few Asians and Pacific Islanders. Kai
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Post by Jaga on Nov 10, 2008 22:22:54 GMT -7
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Post by Jaga on Nov 16, 2008 9:05:31 GMT -7
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