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Children of Pleasure is a 1930 American Pre-Code MGM musical comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont, originally released with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from Crane Wilbur's 1929 play, The Song ...
Release date: 26 April 1930
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Comedy, Musical, Romance
Successful songwriter falls for society girl who is just playing around. He doesn't realize that his...
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Muhajir people
Multiethnic group of Indian Muslims who migrated to Pakistan following the Partition of India in 1947
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The Muhajir people (also spelled Mahajir and Mohajir) (Urdu: مہاجر) are Muslim immigrants, of multi-ethnic origin, and their descendants, who migrated from various regions of India to Pakistan ...
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Anita Florence Hemmings (June 8, 1872 – 1960) was the first African-American woman to graduate from Vassar College. After graduation she became a librarian at the Boston Public Library.
Date of birth: 8 June 1872
Date of death: 19 February 1943
Nationality: American
Occupation: Librarian
Gender: Female
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Julia Frankau (née Davis; 30 July 1859 – 17 March 1916) was a successful novelist who wrote under the name Frank Danby. Her first novel was published in 1887: Dr. Phillips: A Maida Vale Idyll. Its p ...
Date of birth: 30 July 1863
Date of death: 17 March 1916
Nationality: British
Occupation: Novelist
Gender: Female
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The melting pot is a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" with a common culture, or vice versa, for a homogeneous society ...
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Romanization or Latinization (or Romanisation or Latinisation), in the historical and cultural meanings of both terms, indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and a ...
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Francization (in American English and Canadian English) or Francisation (in British English), Frenchification, or Gallicization designates the expansion of French language use through adoption by more ...
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Greater India
Cultural sphere of India beyond the Indian subcontinent
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The Indian cultural sphere or Indosphere is an area that is composed of the many countries and regions in South and Southeast Asia that were historically influenced by Indian culture and the Sanskrit ...
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Magyarization
Adoption of Hungarian culture or language by non-Hungarian people
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Magyarization (also Magyarisation, Hungarization, Hungarisation, Hungarianization, Hungarianisation), after "Magyar"—the autonym of Hungarians—was an assimilation or acculturation process by which non ...
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Stolen Generations
Indigenous Australian children forcibly acculturated into White Australian society
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The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state ...
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Spread of Islam
Muslim conquests following Muhammad's death leading to the creation of the caliphates
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Muslim conquests following Muhammad's death led to the creation of the caliphates, occupying a vast geographical area; conversion to Islam was boosted by missionary activities, particularly those of Imams ...
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Culture shock
Experience one may have when moving to a cultural environment which is different from one's own
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Culture shock is an experience a person may have when one moves to a cultural environment which is different from one's own; it is also the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an ...
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Russification
Measures to increase the influence of Russian culture and language
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Russification (Russian: Русификация, Rusifikatsiya) or Russianization is a form of cultural assimilation process during which non-Russian communities, voluntarily or not, give up their culture and language ...
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Language death
Process in which a language eventually loses its last native speaker
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In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker. By extension, language extinction is when the language is no longer known, including by second-language speakers. Other ...
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Anglicisation
Process by which something or someone (usually a word) is made more English-like
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Linguistic anglicisation (or anglicization, occasionally anglification, anglifying, or Englishing) is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases in order to make them easier to spell ...
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Bengalis
Ethnic group native to Bangladesh and India
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Bengalis (Bengali: বাঙ্গালী ), also rendered as Bengali people, Bangalis, and Bangalees, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the Bengal region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the ...
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Punjabis
Ethnic group associated with the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent
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The Punjabis (Punjabi: پنجابی, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) or Punjabi people are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group associated with the Punjab region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcon ...
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The Xinjiang re-education camps, officially called Vocational Education and Training Centers by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC), are internment ...
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Izates II (Ἰζάτης), son of Monobaz (Μονόβαζος), or Izates bar Monobaz (also known as Izaates, Persian: ایزد or Hebrew: זוטוס בן מונבז) (ca. 1-55 CE). Izates was a king of the Parthian client kingdom ...
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Lacey Schwartz (born 1977) is an American filmmaker, most notable for her 2015 PBS documentary Little White Lie.
Date of birth: 1977
Nationality: American
Occupation: Film Director
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