By an accident of colonial history, they were separated from Malaysia, with which they share language and religion, and ended up part of Thailand, with its Thai-speaking, Buddhist majority.
Recently freed, Bakhita wants to go home, to be with her people, the Dinka tribe of southern Sudan, even though she has been away long enough to forget their language and religion.
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The show's content is not for the faint-hearted, with strong language and jokes about religion, Aids and female circumcision.
And there are barriers of ethnicity and religion and language.
"The deep fault lines in our society over race, language, culture and religion will not go away, " he said.
The greater the differences in ethnicity, language, religion and culture, the stronger the centrifugal force that drives groups apart.
There is a very big Muslim community in Wales, there's a big Jewish community in Wales, and I think we have to remember that the job of politicians is to make Wales a country safe for everybody to live in, whatever their tradition, whatever their background, whatever their language and whatever their religion.
But in 1956, four years after Senanayake's death, Solomon Bandaranaike, the late father of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, swept to power on a pledge to elevate Buddhism and Sinhalese, the main religion and language, to pre-eminent positions.
Therefore, education on human rights and the dissemination of proper information, both theoretical and practical, play an important role in the promotion and respect of human rights with regard to all individuals without distinction of any kind such as race, sex, language or religion, and this should be integrated in the education policies at the national as well as international levels.
The persons belonging to minorities have the right to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion and to use their own language in private and in public, freely and without interference or any form of discrimination.
Yiddishkeit Jewishness that depends more on language, culture and shared institutions than on religion is killed off early in the book.
It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.
He demonstrates that while religion influences and provides a language for the international relations of the Middle East, it does not determine them.
For starters, so-called Affinity Fraud is a ongoing problem and those investors who come from a tightly knit community be the bonds ethnicity, language, religion, or whatever may be steered by their neighbors, families, and friends to a stockbroker who speaks their language and understands their customs.
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The press can write anything so long as it does not touch on issues of religion, race, the national language and the king.
Error, Jan. 13: The language of two Indian films by women directors, Talaas and English Vinglish, was misreported as Hindu (the religion) rather than Hindi (the language).
We are a unique nation, unique for refusing to reduce Indian-ness to a single language, religion, or ideology, unique in affirming and celebrating the staggering diversity found within our borders (and beyond them).
Based on this premise, it is hoped that this calloboration would further strengthen universal respect for justice, the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms, regardless of race, gender, language or religion.
"Discrimination of any kind against a country, private person or group of people on account of ethnic origin, gender, language, religion, politics or any other reason is strictly prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion, " it reads.
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Movements whose core value is that faith is a barrier of division or a bomb of destruction have proven exceptional at growing because of their ability to advance core narratives using the language of religion, embed their programs in faith-based institutions and nurture other high-impact leaders who carry out their vision.
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Race is still an emotional topic in South Africa and Haasbroek has been at pains to explain that residents are screened based on culture, language, religion, history - but not race.
K.K.'s campaign is made more difficult by the fact that, exiles aside, Kurds are dispersed across five national borders, and, although most are Sunni Muslims, they are not clearly united by one religion or one language, as are, say, the nation-seekers of Kosovo.
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