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Vietnamese Gospel Resources Vietnamese is the official language, and Chinese, English, French, Khmer (Cambodian), Hmong, and tribal languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) are also spoken. Vietnamese is number 9 on the list of the 50 Most Common Languages in the U.S. An article in American Demographics, estimates that the areas with the largest concentration of Vietnamese Americans, in terms of overall regional population are, in order, Orange County, California; Santa Clara County (200,000); and the greater Houston area. A list of Vietnamese Churches in Washington State can be found at our site. www.ethnicharvest.org /peoples/countries/vietnam.htm   (1014 words)

SULAIR: Research Quick Start Guides: Asian American Studies Green Library Media and Microtext Room, including the "Papers of the U.S. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians," "Oral History Transcripts" of early Japanese Americans in Fresno County, California, and selected immigration documents. A75 C47 1988) Lists works by writers of Asian descent who have made the United States or Canada their home. Entries include Asian Indian Americans, Cambodian Americans, Chinese Americans, Hmong Americans, Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, Pakistani Americans, Samoan Americans, and Thai Americans. www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/adams/shortcu/asam.html   (1801 words)

CMMR - Asian - Pacific Island Resources This page provides listings of colleges and universities in North America that teach Hmong. Listing of less common languages and the colleges and universities in North America where they are taught. This page provides listings of colleges and universities in North America that teach Khmer. www-rcf.usc.edu /~cmmr/Asian.html   (4114 words)

National Congress of Vietnamese Americans - NCVA Reporter Weekly Edition For example, approximately 36 percent of Americans overall aged 20 to 24 are enrolled in school, compared with 44 percent of Cambodian, 38 percent of Hmong, 38 percent of Laotian, and 58 percent of Vietnamese Americans. Founded in 1986, the National Congress of Vietnamese Americans is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community advocacy organization working to advance the cause of Vietnamese Americans in a plural but united America – e pluribus unum – by participating actively and fully as civic minded citizens engaged in the areas of education, culture and civil liberties. In 1989, 47 percent of Cambodians, 66 percent of Hmong, 67 percent of Laotians, and 34 percent of Vietnamese in the U.S. lived in poverty, according to the Census Bureau. www.ncvaonline.org /archive/reporter050404.shtml   (5803 words)

Free Republic latest articles The school scheduled sessions for the students that presented the viewpoints of Hmong, Jews, Muslims, Native Americans, African-Americans, homosexuals, Latinos, Buddhists, the physically disadvantaged, and the economically disadvantaged, but not Christians or former homosexuals. After a school official stated that the viewpoints of Christians and former homosexuals would be excluded, a resident contacted Liberty Counsel on behalf of many other... As a high school quarterback, Brian Stann led the Scranton Prep offense under the glare of Friday night lights. www.freerepublic.com   (5383 words)

Vietnamese Gospel Resources Vietnamese is number 9 on the list of the 50 Most Common Languages in the U.S. An article in American Demographics, estimates that the areas with the largest concentration of Vietnamese Americans, in terms of overall regional population are, in order, Orange County, California; Santa Clara County (200,000); and the greater Houston area. Vietnamese is the official language, and Chinese, English, French, Khmer (Cambodian), Hmong, and tribal languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) are also spoken. A list of Vietnamese Churches in Washington State can be found at our site. www.ethnicharvest.org /peoples/countries/vietnam.htm   (981 words)

asian american studies Japanese American family life is at the heart of the plays, from elder traditionalists and Nisei still troubled by the message of the wartime camps, to women seeking new roles and brash youth seizing opportunities in a larger society. Myths and theories of the American melting pot, of assimilation, and of pluralistic society were shattered as racial violence during the 1992 Los Angeles uprising vividly exposed the inadequacy of our prior assumptions. This collection of essays, commentaries and literary works by Latino and Asian and African American scholars, journalists, and writers focuses on race and ethnic relations in Los Angeles as they have emerged from the uprising and as they exist in the broader national picture. www.washington.edu /uwpress/asian.amer.studies.html   (2622 words)

BV: Foreign Language & Ethnic Resources Click on the "languages and literature" button to see a list of languages from Hmong to Cherokee, with links to more information about each. This site is an attempt to catalog foreign language sites that might be useful to teachers of foreign language. "Your Japanese Guests" is an effort to provide resources that might improve relations between Americans and Japanese. www.bv229.k12.ks.us /bvideas/resources/forlang.htm   (1299 words)

Cultural Aspects of Health Care - Ebling Library Many of the books on this list were purchased by a grant from the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries and were recommended by faculty members, graduate students, and students in the School of Pharmacy. List of States that have had over a 100% growth in Hispanic population between 1990 and 2000 (includes Wisconsin). Following is a list of selected books on multicultural health care topics. www.hsl.wisc.edu /pharmacy/cultural.cfm   (1614 words)

Americans.net - Immigration Information One hundred twenty years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, America continues to grapple with both its image and the stark reality of all that is encompassed by its descriptor, "the land of immigrants." This list includes a glossary and a list of web resources. Hmong Studies Journal is an Internet-based publication devoted to the scholarly discussion of Hmong history, Hmong culture, Hmong people, and other facets of the Hmong experience in the U.S., Asia and around the world. This article about the history of Filipino Americans is from the Commission of Asia Pacific Americans Association (CAPAA) website. www.americans.net /Immigration.htm   (1614 words)

asian american culture South Asian Journalists Association, and cultural resources such as the Museum of Chinese American History in Los Angeles, and the Includes individual chapters on Chinese Americans, Filipinos, Hawaiians, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans, plus chapters on South Asians (including peoples from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan) and Southeast Asians (specifically including Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Hmong, and ethnic Chinese with historical roots in Southeast Asia). Volume 1 (1998-) to the present of the Journal of Asian American Studies, a new scholarly research journal in the field, is available to read and search online, via Project MUSE (an electronic text collection of journals in the humanities). www.public.iastate.edu /~savega/las325.html   (1614 words)

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