Sentence examples for foreign ancestry from inspiring English sources

Peranakan, in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, a native-born person of mixed local and foreign ancestry.

Other athletes with foreign ancestry have done the same thing, sparing themselves the grueling process of qualifying for the Olympics in the United States.

Immigrants with ties to South Korea, too, cling to their nationality, in part because of lingering resentment of Japan's brutal 1910-1945 colonial rule of Korea, and because of continuing discrimination against people of foreign ancestry.

Further, Duncan and Trejo's (2007) study of Mexican-Americans suggests that the more successfully-assimilated native born may be less likely to report a foreign ancestry.

Foreign ancestry (students identifying themselves as being of any ancestry other than Australian/New Zealand) was more common among medical students than among allied health or nursing students.

This is most likely a demographic effect rather than a disciplinary effect, with about three quarters of the medical cohort reporting being from a capital city and about half reporting foreign ancestry (migrants tend to gravitate to Australian cities).

Both were born in 1953, the youngest in families of boys; both had strong-willed mothers, who had married husbands with foreign ancestries of whom their families disapproved.

He began his bid a year before Barack Obama began his, and although their politics and characters, their stories and styles, could otherwise hardly be less alike, Sarkozy, too, defined himself as a transformational leader: a child of half-foreign ancestry, whose very candidacy was an affirmation of the Republic's ideals.

The fervent nationalists never forgave him for his part in brokering the peace, and neither Sadat nor Mubarak had the strength to appoint him as actual foreign minister with his Coptic ancestry.

The idea of defining Haitian ancestry as inherently foreign and incompatible with Dominican identity is so deep-rooted that it is not uncommon for sympathetic Dominicans and Dominican Americans to still refer to this group as Haitians, not as fellow Dominicans.

Approximately two weeks ago, an estimated 250,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent have been stripped of legal status due to a court decision that denationalizes generations of native and foreign-born Dominicans of Haitian ancestry.