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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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