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  2. Americans in India - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, more than 400,000 American soldiers were sent to India. [3]After the end of British colonial rule in India in 1947, the "colonial third culture" surrounding employment, which featured expatriates in superior roles, natives in subordinate roles, and little informal socialisation between the two, began to be replaced with a "co-ordinate third culture", based around the ...

  3. Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia

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    It describes the American situation wherein despite the cultural assimilation of ethnic groups to mainstream American society, they maintained structural separation. [20] Gordon maintained that there is limited integration of the immigrants into American social institutions such as educational, occupational, political, and social cliques. [5]

  4. Cultural amalgamation - Wikipedia

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    The term cultural amalgamation is often used in studies on post–civil rights era in the United States and contemporary multiculturalism and multiracialism. [ 7 ] [ 1 ] For instance, the cultural amalgamation process happened with the fall of the Roman empire when the Middle Ages started and Roman Jewish/Christian culture and Germanic tribal ...

  5. List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies - Wikipedia

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    India: Both Matrilineal Fore: Australasia: Papua New Guinea: Shirley Glasse (Lindenbaum) 1963 Garo: Asia: India, Bangladesh: Matrilocal Matrilineal: Gitxsan: North America: Canada: Matrilineal Greek: Europe: various islands Matrilocal John Hawkins: to the end of the 18th century AD [7] Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) North America: United States ...

  6. List of proposed state mergers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of proposed state mergers, including both current and historical proposals originating from sovereign states or organizations.The entities listed below differ from separatist movements in that they would form as a merger or union of two or more existing states, territories, colonies or other regions, becoming either a federation, confederation or other type of unified sovereign ...

  7. Syncretism - Wikipedia

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    The god Hermanubis, an example of Greco-Egyptian syncretism The god Taranis-Jupiter, an example of Romano-Celtic syncretism. Religious syncretism is the blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation into a religious tradition of beliefs from unrelated traditions. This can occur for many reasons, and ...

  8. Culture of India - Wikipedia

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    Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, [4] are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well-known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin ...

  9. Cultural assimilation of Native Americans - Wikipedia

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    Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins demonstrating European methods of farming to Creek (Muscogee) on his Georgia plantation situated along the Flint River, 1805. The most important facet of the foreign policy of the newly independent United States was primarily concerned with devising a policy to deal with the various Native American tribes it bordered.