Although the new rulers of Tikal were foreign, their descendants were rapidly Mayanized.
But it will be harder for the foreign-born descendants of Canadians to become citizens: in future, only the first generation would be able to do so automatically.
It is insulting for members of foreign nations and their descendants to witness their treasured ethnic traditions reduced to cheap and hollow caricatures, all in the name of commercialism.
The foreign Malays consist of descendants of immigrants from other part of Malay archipelago who became the citizens of the Malay sultanates and were absorbed and assimilated into Malay culture at different times, aided by similarity in lifestyle and common religion (Islam).
Zalmai Rassoul is a former foreign minister and a descendant of Afghanistan's royal family.
The former foreign minister, Zalmai Rassoul, a descendant of Afghanistan's royal family, also needed to turn to a former warlord clan for one of his running mates to build support, but in a historic move, his other vice-presidential nominee is the reformist governor of Bamiyan province, Habiba Sarobi, the first woman to be nominated for high office in Afghanistan with any chance of success.
The Muslim communities of Gujarat are therefore among the longest-established in India, and the majority of their members are descendants of converts, not "foreign invaders", whoever these might be.
China has strict rules on broadcasting foreign dramas, but relaxed them for Descendants of the Sun, whose production was reportedly partly funded by Chinese investors.
Our objective was to investigate use of healthcare in a foreign country in Turkish immigrants, their descendants, and ethnic Danes.
The Kingdom of Hawaii's death march ended in 1893 with Lili'uokalani's forced abdication to a provisional government, dominated by missionary descendants and haole (white or foreign) businessmen.
In 1990, Japan started to issue visas to foreign citizens exclusively of Japanese descent, like the descendants of Japanese who emigrated to Brazil in search of opportunities in the last century.
