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  2. Culture of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The culture of Texas is diverse, shaped by significant migration from the American North and West, differing from its eastern neighbours in the Deep South.It encompasses regional and cultural influences from German Texan, Tejanos, Cajuns, Irish, African American, and White Anglo-Southern communities established before the republic era and statehood.

  3. Wends of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas Wendish Heritage Museum Texas Wendish Bell. The Texas Wends or Wends of Texas are a group of people descended from a congregation of 558 Sorbian/Wendish people under the leadership and pastoral care of John Kilian (Sorbian languages: Jan Kilian, German: Johann Killian) who emigrated from Lusatia (part of modern-day Germany) to Texas in 1854. [1]

  4. Family traditions - Wikipedia

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    Family traditions ensure that the warmth and closeness of family bondage grow. In the modern context, maintenance of and developing family traditions continue to be as significant as they were at the earliest times. Active family traditions and meaningful participation in them help families to avoid social entropy.

  5. Culture of San Antonio - Wikipedia

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    Historically, San Antonio culture comes from a blend of Central Texas (Hill Country) and South Texas (Southwestern) culture. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded as a Spanish outpost and the first civil settlement in Texas , [ 3 ] San Antonio is heavily influenced by Mexican American culture due to Texas formerly being part of Mexico and, previously, the ...

  6. Category:Texas culture - Wikipedia

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  7. Culture of Houston - Wikipedia

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    The Ladies Reading Group of Houston was a significant founder of the public library system in Houston. Elizabeth Long, the author of the 2003 book Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life, wrote that Houston's "literary scene" contributes and draws upon the overall literary culture of Texas. [49]

  8. Culture of El Paso - Wikipedia

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    The museum includes dioramas for school children which illustrate the culture and geology of the American Southwest, such as Hueco Tanks in El Paso County. One diorama (see image to the right) is of the Cueva de la Olla [ 21 ] (cave of the pot) which is located in the Sierra Madre of Chihuahua , an example of the Paquimé culture.

  9. History of the family - Wikipedia

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    The book, Centuries of Childhood by Philippe Ariès, published in France in 1960, had a great influence on the revival of the field of family history studies. [1] Ariès used the analysis of demographic data to draw the conclusion that the concept of childhood was a concept that emerged in modern nuclear families . [ 1 ]