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"Formerly the superpower of Latin America, people immigrated to Mexico instead of vice versa. Back in 1905, a group of Koreans who were fleeing Japanese rule were 'lured in 1905 by ship to plantations on the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico. Instead of finding a better life, they were sold to plantation owners and forced to cultivate henequen, a plant whose tough fiber was used to make things like rope.'"
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"Surprisingly, some Egyptian women say that their veils don’t protect against harassment, as the lollipop ads argue, but fuel it. A survey released this summer supports the view."
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Americans have an amazing ability to forget that the English language varies across the country. When I arrived from Toronto, New Yorkers would taunt me that I sometimes used the word "pop" instead of "soda" for soft drinks and justify it by saying "My friend in California uses "soda" too so it's an American thing. They dismissed it as a Canadian-ism…but now I have proof that it wasn't…New Yorkers can be so provincial sometimes.
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"…a sign informed the visitors that the film wasn’t showing correctly due to a 'technical problem'."
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