The representation of minority culture is central to ethnic tourism development. However, only limited attention has been paid to cultural representation in ethnic attractions. This research examines representations of multiple ethnic cultures in the Yunnan Ethnic Folk Villages, China. The perspectives from four key groups of stakeholders— governments, park managers, employees and tourists—are ...

the present paper is looking for expressing one of the most important human's phenomenon: mourning; one of the types of the poetries which has a close relationship with humanistic, social and natural tendencies. the poets paid special attention to mourning since years ago as well as the contemporary era. the lebanese contemporary poets also paid special attention to the majesty of this gre...

Mental health services are developed to cater for the dominant economic or cultural group. In practice this means that ethnic minorities do not receive equitable care. In the UK, disparities in rates of illness, access to care, outcome and satisfaction with services have been reported (Sashidharan, 2003). However, more often than not such disparities are not measured and ethnic minorities suffe...

The gene frequencies of HLA class II alleles were studied in 95 healthy Lebanese Arab and 72 healthy Bahraini Arab subjects. Our aim was to establish the genetic relationship between Bahraini and Lebanese Arabs in terms of HLA class II gene and haplotype frequencies and to compare these results with frequencies for other countries with populations of Caucasian and non-Caucasian descent. Subject...

Asian Americans have lower levels of physical activity (PA) compared to other racial/ethnic groups; however, there is little understanding of the social and cultural determinants of PA in this population. Few analyses describe specific PA domains (occupation-, transportation-, recreation-related), focus on one Asian subgroup, or use validated scales. The study objective was to assess the associ...

The paper focuses on the role of ethnocultural public associations, which are civil society institutions preserving ethnic identity. authors investigate associations in culture and language, report collaboration these with population youth. place special emphasis specific practices interaction between organizations authorities field national policy, maintenance identity formation an integrated ...