Newer groups, closer to their ethnic customs, tend to do more to keep those practices alive.
"The accused are fully guaranteed the rights of litigation, and their ethnic customs as well as their dignity are respected".
North Dakotans of Icelandic, Czech, Ukrainian, Polish, and German ancestry also retain some ethnic customs, and in some families ancestral languages are still spoken.
When the two families argue over which ethnic customs will be included in the wedding, it's apparent that both just want control — especially when Mr. Whitaker's character struggles to come up with African-American counterparts to a legion of Mexican customs, like draping a rosary around the couple's neck to symbolize togetherness or eating freshly prepared goat.
In the apprenticeship that he designed for his imperial career, he undertook long journeys and intensive investigations, both scholarly and personal, of the history, archeology, religion, languages, and ethnic customs of Central Asia, a region that he believed was vital to protecting the Empire's crown jewel, India.
Now, with the first checks set to be cut soon, it has become increasingly clear that determining who is entitled to what is, in reality, a baffling puzzle complicated by differing national laws, unfamiliar ethnic customs and extraordinarily complex family relationships from Mexico to the Middle East.
The grave sites may be elaborately adorned and landscaped, like the Di Donato markers, or bare or somewhere in between, and the kind of attention they get provides a window into how the ethnic customs and traditions of the living play out in the land of the dead.
But using administrative orders to try and change ethnic customs, habits, and languages is futile.
Tibetan architectural features and ethnic customs are taken into account in the creation of passive renovations that are applied with minimal effect on the overall architecture.
Parochial reviews, for example, insist on gauging the film's success on the slapstick potential of "ethnic customs" and "culture clashes".
