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unusual facts about Multicultural



Abhijit Pandya

During the 2010 general election, Pandya made headlines for criticising multicultural policy and defending the English Defence League, after which his rival, Labour politician Tony McNulty, described him as 'a BNP man in a suit'.

Amanda Husberg

For 50 years she has been the Director of Music at St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church, now a multicultural congregation in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

American International School of Bucharest

The American International School of Bucharest (AISB) is a multicultural and international school located in the town of Voluntari, 5 km outside central Bucharest, Romania, set on a 10 hectares campus.

Australian Football Multicultural Cup

The first Multicultural Cup was held at Skinner Reserve, Braybrook in 2004, with Israel 8.9 (57) defeating Samoa 1.0 (6) in the Grand Final.

Bread and Roses Heritage Festival

Bread and Roses is the only broadly multicultural festival in Lawrence, the Immigrant City.

Brøndby Strand

It contains about a dozen high-rise residential estates of a big multicultural mix, and is home to a number of successful hip hop and urban rap artists of national and international stature, like Outlandish, Burhan G and Majid and others.

Buddhism in South Africa

More recent additions to the collection of schools include Shambala originally conceived by Chögyam Trungpa, Diamond Way Buddhism, a multicultural Lay Buddhist tradition under the guidance of H.H. 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje and the New Kadampa tradition founded by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

Chicago Children's Choir

In 1956 during the Civil Rights Movement, the late Rev. Christopher Moore founded the multiracial, multicultural Chicago Children’s Choir at Hyde Park’s First Unitarian Church of Chicago.

CHNM-DT

The station also airs popular English-language shows such as The Price Is Right, The Simpsons and Two and a Half Men alongside its multicultural programming.

CKLU-FM

Local programming has included Lunch with the Trinnie, which profiles the city's local multicultural communities, City Spins, which features interviews and music by local musicians, All My Friends Radio, and Minotaur Hour, hosted by musician Nathan Lawr.

Coloured

For instance, the government relocated Coloured from the multicultural Cape Town area of District Six, which was later bulldozed.

Delta Xi Nu

With a focus on cultural diversity and service, Delta Xi Nu Multicultural Sorority, Inc. can be considered a "non-traditional" Greek organization and does not meet membership status requirements for many of the other national Greek umbrella organizations (e.g. National Panhellenic Conference, National Pan-Hellenic Council, National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations, National APIA Panhellenic Association), nor does it meet these requirements at the local/campus level.

Department of Communities

The department has a range of focus areas in the delivery of human services including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services, child safety, disability, community care, housing, homelessness, multicultural affairs, sport, recreation and women.

Donald A. Coleman

Coleman is the founder, chairman and CEO of GlobalHue, the largest multicultural advertising agency in the United States, working with blue chip brands and organizations to communicate with African-American, Asian and Hispanic consumers.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Multicultural Institute

The Dr. Martin Luther King Multicultural Institute is an elementary school located in the East Side of Buffalo, New York.

Edwin San Juan

Edwin San Juan (born February 24, 1969) is a Filipino American actor and comedian who is known for sharing his multicultural life experiences, his observational humor, word play and for poking fun at ethnic stereotypes.

Eli Beer

Nominated by a committee chaired by H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan for his efforts to create a multicultural, apolitical medical rescue organization, Beer was chosen to become one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders in 2012.

Ethnic Business Awards

Founded in 1988 by Joseph Assaf AM, a Lebanese born Australian who specializes in multicultural marketing and businesses, the awards' goal was to "recognise and reward the contributions of migrants to the Australian economy".

Forum 28

The Forum 28 is one of the areas main cultural and art centres and has hosted such acts as Billy Ocean, Hayley Westenra, Anthony Costa, Pam Tillis and Björn Again, as well as hosting such events as the local multicultural festival and various career conventions.

Global Business School Barcelona

The Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Global Business School Barcelona is a multicultural program for students who are looking to develop a solid base of understanding of the numerous core business concepts from a broader perspective of international business and acquire the in-depth knowledge of global markets and industries as well as understand the business cultures of Europe, Asia, Latin America and other regions of the world.

Howard Thurman

He was Dean of Chapel at Howard University and Boston University for more than two decades, wrote 21 books, and in 1944 helped found a multicultural church.

Kamwala Secondary School

It has since developed into a multiracial, multicultural school, with Christian, Hindu, and Muslim students.

Kathelin Gray

Gray co-founded the October Gallery in 1978, a charitable trust centred on an avant-garde, multicultural art gallery in Bloomsbury, London.

Kurt Edelhagen

After studying clarinet and piano in Essen, he set up his multicultural big band, which over the years would include many jazz musicians who were well known in Europe, including Francy Boland (who would later set up his own), Ron Simmonds Charly Antolini, Jiggs Whigham, Claus Ogerman, Jimmy Deuchar, Duško Gojković, Rick Kiefer, Ronnie Stephenson, Gerd Dudek, Wilton Gaynair, Derek Humble, Shake Keane and Tubby Hayes.

Lambda Tau Omega

Lambda Tau Omega (ΛΤΩ) is a multicultural sorority founded in 1988 at Montclair State College, now known as Montclair State University, in Montclair, New Jersey.

Liverpool Girls High School

Liverpool Girls High School is a multicultural all girls school located in the southwestern regions of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Marina Karaseva

Diplomacy with the language of music: National anthem as a genre of multicultural communication. Professionals for Cooperation, Issue 5.

Martin Kayongo-Mutumba

In 2003 Mutumba collaborated on the book "Svartskallar – Så funkar vi" (Blackheads – How we work) where 11 young people from multicultural and minority backgrounds talk about what it is like to be of immigrant background in modern Swedish society.

Melanie Verwoerd

She presented a weekly radio programme, Spectrum, on RTÉ Radio 1 on the theme of multiculturalism, which addressed the challenges facing the New Ireland and examined the issues that arise in a multicultural society.

Michael J. Meade

He collaborates in this multicultural work with figures such as Luis J. Rodriguez and Jack Kornfield.

Multicultural education

Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg, Peter McLaren, Henry Giroux, Antonia Darder, Christine Sleeter, Ernest Morrell, Sonia Nieto, Rochelle Brock, Cherry A. McGee Banks, James A. Banks, Nelson Rodriguez, Leila Villaverde and many other scholars of critical pedagogy have offered an emancipatory perspective on multicultural education.

Naisrín Elsafty

Naisrín grew up in a multicultural and multi-religious household, celebrating both Christmas and the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr (the end of Ramadan).

NOWTV

(It lost the bid for a multicultural station in Vancouver a few years ago to CHNM.) The financial difficulties Trinity has experienced with operating CHNU and getting CIIT on the air, combined with the fact that it cannot raise capital from outside investors (because of its status as a charitable organization) are the main reasons given for the sale.

Oakwood–Vaughan

Oakwood–Vaughan is a multicultural neighbourhood in the York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Old East York

Crescent Town Founded on the former site of the Crescent School to take advantage of the adjacent Victoria Park station, Crescent Town is today a diverse multicultural neighbourhood, whose population includes extensive numbers of Bengali, Jamaican, Pakistani, and Tamil Canadians.

Old Scona Academic High School

Numerous student-run clubs are available at Old Scona Academic, such as Multicultural Club, Speech & Debate Club, Go Club, Business/Finance Club, Hip Hop Club, Bollywood club, Reading Buddies, and Discussion Club.

Outline of Louisiana

Some Louisiana urban environments have a strong multicultural and multilingual heritage, influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American (Indian) and African inhabitants.

Peggy Levitt

She claims that immigration globalizes American religion as well as economics and politics and creates a more pluralistic, cosmopolitan American society.

San Telmo, Buenos Aires

San Telmo became the most multicultural neighborhood in Buenos Aires, home to large communities of British, Galician, Italian and Russian-Argentines.

Sensis

Sensis Agency, a Los Angeles-based interactive advertising agency specializing in multicultural advertising

Sonia Nieto

She has won several awards in her field, most notably the 1997 Multicultural Educator of the Year award from the National Association for Multicultural Education, the 2005 Educator of the Year Award from the National Council of Teachers of English, and honorary doctorates from Lesley University (1999), Bridgewater State College (2004), and DePaul University (2007).

St. Wenceslaus in Baltimore

In recent years, the ethnic character of St. Wenceslaus parish has undergone a gradual change from a majority Czech parish to one that is multicultural and multiracial, first as many Poles and Lithuanians moved into the neighborhood, and then as the neighborhood shifted to having an African American majority.

The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

It was edited by Peter Schwartz and adds a new introduction by Schwartz, as well as two essays by Rand ("Racism" was included in The Virtue of Selfishness, and "Global Balkanization" was in The Voice of Reason) and three by Schwartz ("Gender Tribalism", "The Philosophy of Privation", and "Multicultural Nihilism").

Third Rome

The Turkish historian İlber Ortaylı is a proponent of this claim, citing the multicultural make-up of the state and Sultan Mehmed's acceptance of certain Byzantine court customs.

WMFP

In May 2007, Multicultural took over WMFP, and switched the station to a mix of infomercials and home shopping network Gems TV; the Gems TV affiliation was dropped a year later.

Wyższa Szkoła Menedżerska w Legnicy

The university is cooperating with the University of Pennsylvania in the area of multicultural theory of leadership with 61 academic units from all over the world.


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