The permanence of the Brotherhood has been threatened by the lack of interest shown by the elite in cultures of African and mixed origin.

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The Brotherhood, which is nowadays open to all without distinction of sex or origin, was founded in the sixteenth century by African slaves and people of mixed origin.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

He would like to say that it is acceptable to be both, just as for those who are born to mixed origin families where one parent is British and the other is not.

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Throughout Wales, 2.2% of people were of Asian origin, 0.6% of African, Caribbean or other black heritage and 1% of mixed ethnic origin.

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Between the early 1960s and his death in 1996, Hebborn created an estimated 1, 000 drawings in the manner of various Old Masters, artfully mixed in with thousands more of legitimate origin that he handled as a dealer.

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"She's going to have a lot of mixed feelings about returning to her family of origin because she's spent almost two decades with a different family, " said Margo Napoletano, a child and family psychologist in San Diego, California.

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But experts can tell the origin of a packet of rough diamonds, even if individual stones or mixed parcels are harder to identify.

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For Keith Vaz, MP for ethnically mixed Leicester East, the changes are an attack on British Asians, accustomed to marrying in their country of origin.

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