The people of Japan are all members of several different traditions and each person may be more religious in one area at different times in there life. ... The people all belong to both a Shinto Shrine and Buddhist Temple. ... The most amazing part of the tradition's creation story is that it is so engrained in the people of Japan that to the current day the imperial line has not changed and the people trace their imperial family directly to the kami. ...

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When the word bigotry is uttered, various scenarios enter one's mind. Ideas of slavery in ancient cultures, the attempted wiping out of a particular ethnic group, slave plantations in Pre-Civil War America, and the women's suffrage movements in various parts of the world over the last century are just a few which come to mind. Yet bigotry can exist in very slight-of-hand ways, from "dumb-blonde" jokes, to dishonest hiring practices concerning racial minorities. Perhaps the most notable forms of bigotry are sexism and racism, particulary since their struggles and overcoming of which i...

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It has roots in Africa, specifically the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria. ... (Lindsay: 54-56) The orishas have power over a person's destiny and have powers to reward and punish people. ... In Santeria, people are tied by ceremonial or spiritual kinship of the Ile. In an ile, people are related to each other not by blood, but by being in the same orisha "house-. ...

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