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Professor Mark Elliott gives the 73rd George Morrison Lecture at The Australian National University on June 20, 2012. His talk is entitled 'Reinventing the Manchus: An Imperial People in Post-Imperial China'. With the 1911 overthrow of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), many predicted that the dynasty's ethnic founders, the Manchus, would soon be swallowed up by the Han majority -- the final act in a long process of acculturation that began in 1644, which even the long sequestration of the conquerors in walled garrisons could not prevent. The destruction of those walls, and continued prejudice against them in the first half of the 1900s, created a highly adverse environment for people wishing to go on being 'Manchu'. Facing dwindling numbers, and at first denied official status as a minority nationality, their fate appeared even more uncertain in the early years of the People's Republic of China. All the more astonishing, then, that the Manchus not only survived as an identity group, but are today the second most numerous of China's fifty-five minority nationalities. This lecture reconstructs that story and takes up the problem of the paradoxical survival of the Manchus into the twenty-first century to ask two simple questions: How is it that the Manchus are still with us today? And what does their continued existence mean for modern China? A historian of relations between the Chinese heartland and the peoples living in the steppe frontier, Professor Mark Elliott is among the ...

Mesut Özil makes Ronaldinho Freestyle tricks.He is a big Ronaldinho Fan and the best football player in the German National team.Nice technic Comment and thumbs up please

Every year in Obando, Bulacan, many Filipino childless couples seek the intercession of patron saints San Pascual Baylon and Santa Clara for a child to be born. This is part of their town fiesta which is held from May 17 to 19. This tradition dates back before the Spanish colonization of our country which lasted over 3 hundred years. Of course, when the Spaniards came, the folk practice intermixed with the religious practice. Filipinos these days, especially those wanting a child, usually wear the attire worn during the Spanish times and dance the pandango in the streets as part of the ritual. The 1st part of the video clearly shows the religious influence as brought by the Spanish Franciscan friars .... this leads to the scene where the wife pleads for a child by singing - Sta. Clara Pinung-pino (1:00) ... then is followed by the dancing of the pandango (1:52). You will note that all musical instruments being played are made of bamboo. And of course the happy ending where the couple are belssed with TWINS !!! hehhee (4:00). I really wonder if the saints have been too overly generous since there are now 100 million Filipinos!!! The last scene, the baptism of the twins with various ethnic groups taking part in the celebrations may also be interpreted as the birth of a nation with so much cultural diversity and with peoples living in "peace and harmony". You have here symbolism for Christianity, Islam and the indigenous people's beliefs. Hope you like it and what great kids ...

Владимир Леонтьев,Песня про родственников, Vladimir Leontiev, Song about relatives, family. www.chuvashia-tv.ru

Documentary movie by polish author: Ivan Zwarovsky Oluja - Operation Storm - Pad Krajne - 1995 Movie talks about ethnic cleansing of serbs from Croatia.About 250 000 people were ethnicly cleansed from their land where they lived about 4000 years (4 centuries) Croatian army with help of US NATO EU and Slovenia created action called "Operation Storm" in witch they defeated small Republic of Kraina's force and start cleansing that area from Serbs. If u need more explanation where is Kraina. Kraina is Serbian land in former Yugoslavia by the creating of communist borders Kraina supposed to be in Croatia ,but Croats wants ethnicly clean state of Croatia so they decided to ethnicly clean that area by expeling 250 000 people. All copyrights to this video goes to Zwarovsky young film director from Poland

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Peacock dance from the 4th Taoli National Dance Competition in 1994. Finalist. This is significantly different from Yang Liping's. The music sounds very scratchy but not much can be done about it. She took Honorable Mention. The first prize went to the dancer for 小卜哨(www.youtube.com