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America's Real Model Minority: It's white people, but don't tell them that. Ethnic pride abounds in the mythology of what makes an acceptable immigrant
The leader of an anti-racism workshop in the 1990s once noted adisquieting inclination on the part of white participants todissociate themselves from the advantages of whiteness by emphasizingsome purportedly not-quite-white ethnic background. "I'm not white;I'm Italian," one would say. Another, "I'm Jewish." After this ripplehad made its way across the group, the seminar leader was leftwondering, "What happened to all the white people who were here justa minute ago?"
The sense of a sentence like "I'm not white, I'm Italian" restsupon several historical preconditions, now loosely relayed in theterm "ethnic revival": the Civil Rights Movement heightened …
Küsters Wins Orders for 6 Installations and 2 Calenders in Pakistan
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG of Krefeld, Germany together with its Nonwoven Divisions has won orders for six wet finishing ranges and two calenders from Pakistan. The orders from Nishat Chunian and Nishat Mills are for continuous openwidth bleaching ranges, continuous open-width dyeing ranges and continuous open-width mercerizing ranges.
Each of these six ranges is designed for the treatment of various woven fabrics, such as poplin, bed linen, jacquards, satin, striped satin of 100% cotton, cotton/"Lycra", cotton/polyester and viscose. The ranges will process fabrics of 3,200 mm width and weights of 80-250 g/sqm.
The other part of this package are two …
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