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 Chinese Ethnic Minorities
The largest group, the Han, make up over 92% of China's vast population, and it is the elements of Han civilization that world considers "Chinese culture." Yet, the 55 ethnic minorities, nestled away on China's vast frontiers, maintain their own rich traditions and customs, and all are part of Chinese culture.
Even though the modern concept of 56 ethnic groups is often considered an arbitrary and conservative summary of the hundreds of diverse peoples in China, it pales in comparison to the simplicity by which the ancient Han people distinguished their nomadic neighbors.
Although over 400 minority groups answered a call to register, studies found that there was a lot of overlapping, and a significant number of groups that claimed to be separate were actually the same with different names.
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The Guol House, or communal house, is central to the social and cultural life of the Co Tu, an ethnic group living in northwestern Quang Nam province, to the southwest of Thua Thien-Hue province.
The Dao ethnic minority group is one of 54 fraternal ethnic groups in Vietnam.
The Bana ethnic minority group in the Central Highlands is one of 54 ethnic groups living in harmony throughout Vietnam.
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 Ethnic Groups - china.org.cn
It is concentrated mainly in the Huzhu Tu Autonomous County in Qinghai Province, and also in the counties of Minhe and Datong.
Popular legends among the Tus of Huzhu Autonomous County have it that their ancestors were Mongolian soldiers under one of Genghis Khan's generals by the name of Gerilite (Geretai).
The Huzhu Tu Autonomous County was established in February 1954, in spite of the fact that the Tu people account for only 13.5 per cent of the population of the county.
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 List of Chinese nationalities
Conversely, Hakka are often thought of as an ethnic group, but they generally considered a member of the Han nationality.
With some groups, such as the Tibetanss and the Uighurs there is a great deal of resentment against the majority.
Other groups such as the Zhuang, Hui Chinese, and ethnic Koreans are well integrated into the national community.
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 Encyclopedia: Tu (ethnic group)
The Tu (土) people are an ethnic group.
They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
They call themselves "tsagaan mongghol" (White Mongols) and are closely related to the Mongols but classified as a separate minority in the Peoples' Republic of China.
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 Li people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Li (黎 pinyin Lì) or Hlai is a minority Chinese ethnic group.
The majority of the Li live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan, where they are the largest minority ethnic group.
Ethnic Cultures and Languages of Hainan has links to many sites concerning the Li Chinese ethnic groups (classification by PRC government)
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 Mongols   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Mongols are an ethnic group that originated in what is now Mongolia, Russia, and China, particularly Inner Mongolia.
In addition, there are a number of ethnic groups in North China related to the Mongols: the Daur, Buryat, Evenk, Dorbod, and Tuvin.
Han Chinese have been massively re-settled there, and are the dominant ethnic group, and China places many of the same cultural restrictions on Mongols as did Soviet Mongolia.
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 China Ethnic Minority: Tu People
The Tu ethnic group, with a population of about 191,624, is concentrated in the Minhe and Datong counties and the Huzhu Autonomous County in the eastern part of Qinghai Province.
Tu men like to wear dark robes on top of a white short gown, with a green waistband and a felt hat.
Throughout the festival, the entire Tu nationality celebrates, and all the villagers enjoy themselves by singing and dancing to the lively rhythm of drums.
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 The Tu Ethnic Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Tu ethnic minority, known for their simplicity and industriousness, lives in the northwestern part of China – to the east of Qinghai Lake and south of Qilian Mountain Range and along the banks of the Huangshui and Datong rivers.
It is concentrated mainly in the Huzhu Tu Autonomous County in
The Huzhu Tu Autonomous County was established in February 1954, in spite of the fact that the Tu people account for only 13.5 percent of the population of the county.
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 Name of Ethnic Group
Economy: The Co Tu practice a slash and burn cultivation, often dig holes to plant seeds, practice animal husbandry, weave cloth and baskets, gather, hunt and fish.
According to customs, the two families are made to struggle for the bride on the wedding day as the bride is brought from the house of her family to worship the heavens.
Culture: The Ta Oi language belongs to the Mon-Khmer Group and is close to the Bru-Van Kieu and Co Tu languages.
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 China Ethnic Minority: Tu People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There are different versions regarding the origin of the Tus, but most people believe that the Tus evolved from the Tuguhun people in ancient times.
Tu villages are close-knit communities made up of extended families.
The Tu people used to be very particular about their hair, limited to seven or eight particular styles.
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 Some experience in extension works for Ta Oi ethnic group at project of A ngo commune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A Ngo is divided in 10 villages with 34 ethnic groups.
Task of agricultural extensionist is to participate vivaciously in group debate, to pose appropriate suggesting questions and to orient the debate in the logic of the problem.
After termination of group discussion, it is to spare more time to the presentation of discusion result of the group before all participants.
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The Co Tu ethnic group can be found in the province of Da Nang and in Hue, they have many different names including the Ha, the Ca Thang, the Gao and the Ha, linguistically speaking they are of the language group Mon-Khmer.
Co Tu clothing is simple; the men are naked from the waist up and wear loincloths and the women wear skirts.
This group sometimes cremate their dead but they have to be in their teens for that to happen.
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 Tu people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most of them live in Qinghai province, some of them in Gansu province.
However, they are classified as a separate minority in the Peoples' Republic of China, partly due to the fact that they have intermingled with the Tibetan and Turkic people.
The Tu language, which has been recently identified as two separate but related languages--Mongghul (once known as the Huzhu dialect of Monguor/Tu) and Mangghuer (formerly the Minhe dialect of Monguor/Tu)--is a Mongolian language.
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 Encyclopedia: Tu
Encyclopedia: Tu Updated 119 days 19 hours 39 minutes ago.
In Polynesian mythology, Tu Matauenga (also called Tu, Maru (Maori) and Ku (Hawaii)) is the god of war, envy and hatred who devoured his children and fought with the gods (particularly Tawhiri).
Tu Hundred, or Tuhundra härad, was a hundred of Westmannia in Sweden.
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 Tu people - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Tu language is closely related to Mongolian.
Zhàonàsītú 照那斯图: Tǔzúyǔ jiǎnzhì 土族语简志 (Introduction to the Tu language; Běijīng 北京, Mínzú chūbǎnshè 民族出版社 1981).
The Tu ethnic minority (http://www.china.org.cn/e-groups/shaoshu/shao-2-tu.htm) (Chinese government site in English)
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 Ethnicity-Syllabus
It has long been assumed that as societies modernize (that is, as urbaniza-tion, democratization, access to education, etc., increases), ethnic identities would have less hold on individuals and that ethnic conflict would become less likely.
However, despite the steady march of modernization around the globe, ethnicity would not appear to be on the wane, in fact, even in the most modernized societies ethnicity seems to be reasserting itself.
This course will explore the nature of group identities, particularly ethnic identities, and their social and political significance.
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 Chinese Ethnic Minorities Pen Their Own Languages
Among these nationalities are Zhuang, China's biggest ethnic group with 18 million people which equals that of Australia, and Tu ethnic group, with a population of 190,000.
"China's ethnic groups are free to decide either they would adhere to the Chinese (language of the Han people) or they would like to have a new language," he said.
She was able to learn a new way of sub-tropical farming from an ethnic newspaper published in her language, which led her and her family from rags to riches.
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 [Chinh Luan] Report claims Vietnam ethnic group forced into mountains   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that desperate ethnic minority villagers, known as Montagnards, have resorted to hiding in village graves or pits in the forest to escape arrest by Vietnamese troops.
Montagnards in the area are unable to freely leave their homes and authorities have threatened violent reprisals if residents try to relay news to the outside, Sam Zarifi, deputy director for the group's Asia division, said in the statement.
The group, whose founding member was part of a guerrilla force allied with America during the Vietnam War against Communist North Vietnam, has said it simply advocates on behalf of repressed ethnic minorities.
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 TU - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Tu is an informal second-person pronoun in Romance languages.
For more information on formal and informal pronouns, see T-V distinction.
This page was last modified 04:20, 11 May 2005.
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 China Ethnic Group: Blang People
In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368), the iron hoe was widely used by the Pu people and such was the importance of this implement that it even became the tribute to the Yuan court.
As a consequence of the contact between the Pu tribe and the Han as well as their amalgamation into the Han state, these people gradually evolved into the present Blang ethnic group.
Blang ethnic group people have many things in common with Dai people, including the festivals.
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 Race, ethnic group, and clinical research -- Rathore and Krumholz 327 (7418): 763 -- BMJ
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The importance of race and ethnic background in biomedical research and clinical practice.
Evaluation of ethnic minorities and gender effects in clinical trials: opportunities lost and rediscovered.
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 Tu Bishvat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Tu Bishvat 1: '''Tu Bishvat ''' (and#1496;and#1524;and#1493; and#1489;and#1513;and#1489;and# 10: In 2005, Tu Bishvat fell on the January 2525th of January (begin 11: In 2006, Tu Bishvat will fall on the February 1313th of February 13: The name Tu Bishvat comes from the date of the holiday, the 15th of [ 16:.aish.com/tubshvat/tubshvatdefault/default.asp Tu Bishvat ]
Jewish holiday 55: == Tu Bishvat - New year of the trees == 56: :''Main article: Tu Bishvat '' 58: *Tu Bishvat - 15 Shevat 61: '' Tu Bishvat '' is the new year for trees.
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 Qinghai Online Research :: Information about Qinghai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The province of Qinghai boasts a population of 5.2 million, among which the Han Chinese is the largest group.
Other groups include the Tibetan people, Tu, Hui people, Salar and Mongol.
The surrounding area is made up of beautiful rolling grasslands and filled with Ethnic Tibetans, making for an authentic experience.
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He said in the past year, various patriotic religious groups had united with broad mass of religious believers to devote to the economic construction, help maintain social stability, enhance ethnic unity, and play active roles in combating floods and in providing disaster relief.
Li Ruihuan said that patriotic religious groups are also faced with the task of enhancing their own organizations, of training successors, and of realizing the change in leadership.
It is hoped that religious groups will step up training young and middle-aged religious personnel and comprehensively raise their quality, so that China's religious circles will advance towards the 21st century in a brand new outlook.
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Phu Tuc village has 102 households, including 87 households of nearly 400 people of the Ca Tu ethnic group.
The NA Chairman was pleased at socio-economic achievements in Phu Tuc, which now has asphalt roads, brick houses for all households and eliminated hunger.
During his stay in Da Nang, An also visited the Le Quy Don senior secondary school in Son Tra ward, a school established in 1986 for gifted students, which was equipped with modern facilities at a total cost of 85 billion VND.
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