21st May is the World Day for Cultural Diversity. The United Nations established this day to enhance our understanding and acceptance of different cultures. Besides the cultural differences that exist
Members of the violent and rapidly expanding white supremacist Nordic Resistance Movement march through the town of Ludvika, Sweden. The United Nations' 2030 vision for "peaceful, just and inclusive societies" includes migrants. But the data from Gallup's new Migrant Acceptance Index reveals that some countries are years away from realising this vision, with low acceptance of migrants per
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Rohingya refugees Saddam Hussein, 23, and his wife Shofika Begum, 18, pose in a colourful tent decorated with blankets they just married in, at the Kutupalong camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The happiness of their wedding day belies the uncertainty that Saddam and Shofika feel about their future. Fleeing from Myanmar, nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have arrived in Bangladesh, recounti
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Europe&rsquos top soccer teams reflect the power of multiculturalism. The cultural diversity of professional football teams in Europe has increased considerably, recruiting players regardless of their nationality. How do you get players who speak different languages to communicate with each other? In a short essay, the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini had argued that football, just like any
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Beneath the abduction, rape and killing of the eight-year-old Bakkarwal girl in Kathua, is a tale of a nomadic community being gradually forced by circumstances to give up their old ways and settle down. A nomadic tribe of Islamic faith, the Bakkarwals - a subject of Gujjar ethnicity - embark on long journeys in summer with their livestock in the high altitude regions of Kashmir and Lada
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Young Tibetan Buddhist monks are seen at their school inside Thiksey Monastery in Ladakh, India. Their religion is in exile, a homeland reduced to a place on the map after China conquered Tibet. Many Tibetan families in India send at least one child to a monastery to learn about their own culture, language and religion.
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Sociologists concur on the negative effect of globalisation on the world&rsquos cultural diversity. Information and capital are transcending geographical boundaries with the development of technology and reshaping the relationships between the marketplace, states and citizens. With information being so easily distributed throughout the world, a homogenised &lsquolook&rsquo or &lsquotaste&
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For a real multicultural difference, head to the annual Voodoo festival at Ouidah, a small town and former slave port in the West African country of Benin. It commemorates the estimated 60 million people who lost their homelands and their freedom during the African slave trade. The central belief of voodoo is that everything is spirit, including humans. Devotees offer dances to the spirit
