Culture
Video: The Dard People – A Minority in the Northwest of India
The Ladakh region is known for its outstanding beauty, for its mountains, its Tibetan-Buddhist culture. The region is also referred to as „Little Tibet“ and it is the home of the Dard people, an Indo-European minority. Their facial features, with their slender noses, Caucasian-looking eyes and relat...
- Date | 26.11.08
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Video: Pecs in Hungary – Home to Nine Ethnic Minority Groups
The Southern Hungarian town of Pecs – also called Fünfkirchen – has often been referred to as „the accepting town“ in its 2000 year old history. minet visited the provincial town where nine ethnic minority groups live side by side. Also mentioned in the report is the „Gandhi-Gymnasium“, the only Rom...
- Date | 24.09.08
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Video: Minority Anthems – A Music Archive in Vienna
A unique collection of minority anthems can be found at the University of Performing Arts and Music in Vienna, at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethno-Musicology. minet has traced some of the minority anthems in their collection. minet broadcast: 28.05.2009 Also featured in this programm...
- Date | 28.05.08
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Video: Zahre – A German Language Enclave in the Carnic Alps
Sauris/Zahre effectively consists of two villages: Sauris di Sotto/Unterzahre and Sauris di Sopra/Oberzahre. These two villages form the German language enclave in north eastern Italy. It is not entirely clear when the German speakers began to settle in Zahre. The reason for this is that a fire, tw...
- Date | 30.04.08
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Video: Amikejo – An Esperanto State in the Heart of Europe
Amikejo used to be a place of friendship, and in many ways it still is. Today it is known as Kelmis. It lies in the heart of Europe and, at the beginning of the 20th century, was set to become an independent new state amidst Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. The artificial language Esperanto was...
- Date | 26.03.08
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Video: Friulian in Friuli – A Language with Hip-Hop Accents
Friulian is spoken by about half a million people in the Friuli, and it is recognised as an official language for the regional authorities and in schools. The language is mainly spoken in the provinces of Pordenone, Udine and in the Carnic Alps.In the 13th century it was sometimes used even as ...
- Date | 26.03.08
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Video: Dalmatia and Istria in Bolzano – Bolzano’s Minority Mayors
Bolzano’s 2005 mayoral election: Giovanni Salghetti Drioli and Giovanni Benussi are going head to head in an exciting election battle. Both of them have their origins in what is now Croatia, and both of them belong to the Italian minority in Dalmatia and Istria. They maintain their culture of origin...
- Date | 07.12.07
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Video: Unnoticed Belgium? The German Speaking Community
Although there is no „Belgian“ language, the Belgians have no less than three official languages: Dutch, French and German. The Germans in Belgium play a somewhat minor role, they live in the smallest of the Belgian counties and represent only 0.7 percent of the total population. minet visited the G...
- Date | 02.11.07
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Video: The Sorbs – A Slavic People in Germany
The West Slavic Sorbs are recognised as a national minority in Germany. It is estimated that today there are about 20 000 – 30 000 active Sorbian language speakers. In recent years, the Sorbian people have staged a number of protests, including one in 2001 against the closure of the Sorbian language...
- Date | 05.10.07
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Video: The Gypsy Princess Luminita Mihai Cioaba – Roma Life in Romania
The Roma writer Luminita Mihai Cioaba was born in 1957 and has lived in Sibiu, in Romania, since 1963. It was then her father, Ion Cioaba, who was Bulibassa and later became the first Roma king, moved to Sibiu in order to settle down. minet took a look at some traditional Roma villages and encounter...
- Date | 04.05.07
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