Still, change is on the way, with Asians gearing up to protect the fruits of their forefathers' wisdom.
The group came to teach the villagers something their forefathers once practiced: The building of traditional dams called Johads.
Their forefathers may have converted to Islam under Ottoman rule, but behind closed doors they kept their old Catholic practices.
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How can they pass on to their children a nation as strong and free as the one they inherited from their forefathers?
And when decadent parades sweep European and American streets for Mardi Gras, Ukrainians stand by their forefathers munching on pancakes during the Pancake Week celebrations.
Their attachment to the wheat board derives not only from the stable returns it gave them but also from their forefathers' grievances against big grain companies.
Americans learned about tax shelters and municipal bonds and emerging growth stocks, but they for got what their forefathers always knew: that money is easier lost than gained.
Today, many of those South Shields locals -- who speak with the distinctive northeastern accent known as Geordie -- are returning to Yemen to reconnect with the culture of their forefathers, said Gharavi.
It is perhaps not surprising that Americans so virulently hate taxes: as their sense of political participation has withered, they feel that their forefathers' complaint against taxation without representation is relevant once more.
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Now I better understand why our forefathers risked their lives to separate themselves from Britain.
The forefathers of many hereditary peers won their titles by being the favourites, financial backers or time-servers of former rulers.
It is something not good for us, something our forefathers discovered or concluded over a century ago when they banned guns from their towns in the west.
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