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The majority of #Afghan refugees in the United States in 1999 arrived due to necessity, as they fled warfare in #Afghanistan. Many were trained professionals there, but in the US it was impossible to find work due to language barrier and lack of resources

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The difference in attitude towards women has resulted in battery and divorce for many #Ethiopian refugee households in the United States

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The earliest flow of #French immigrants began around 1538 and consisted of Huguenots who felt alienated from mainstream #French society due to their Protestant faith

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The discovery of silver in the Nevada Territory in the late 1850s inspired the influx of #Croatian settlers into towns like Virginia City, Carson City, Austin, and Reno

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New York's main cathedral is dedicated to St. Patrick. Most people celebrating St. Patrick's Day strive to wear something green, Ireland's national color.

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The earliest Turk immigrants settled in industrial cities and found factory work. A large part of the American #Turkish community, however, returned to Turkey before the Depression during the 1930s

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The distribution and use of marijuana and crack cocaine accompany #Jamaican gang members to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Massachusetts, California, and West Virginia, thus perpetuating drug abuse problems

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The eight major #Hawaiian islands are Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, and Hawaii.

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The earliest Hindu mandir, or temple, the "old temple," existed in San Francisco as early as 1920, but in general the religious needs of Hindu Asian #Indians prior to the 1950s were served mainly through ethnic and community organizations

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The discovery of gold in the Sierra Nevada of California in 1849 was an initial stimulus for this migration, as was the expansion of copper mining in Arizona beginning in the 1860s.

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The emotional bond between #Jamaican parents and children is very strong, often stronger than between spouses

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The earliest #Greek immigrants arrived in 1768 and settled at New Smyrna near Saint Augustine, Florida, in a colony of 450 #Greeks

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The early struggle for #Lithuanians in America involved a move away from the #Polish community and toward the definition of a pure #Lithuanian national and ethnic identity

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The earlier wave of #Guyanese immigrants encompassed the first two decades of the twentieth century, showing a steady increase in immigration until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924

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The department's U.S. Information Agency will award two highly qualified #Jordanian students money for advanced studies from the King Hussein Memorial Fulbright Scholarship Program

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the emphasis on education was nowhere more apparent than in the refugees who arrived in the United States after 1945. Many of them were members of the educational and political elite of Estonia, and in the United States they pushed for their children to get a good education

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The earliest documented #Bulgarian immigrants were converts to Protestantism, who arrived around the middle of the nineteenth century to pursue higher education in America