The road promoted exchanges in culture and religion, and saw ethnic migration that closely resembled what was experienced on the well-known Silk Road.
"I won't leave the sport after retiring, and I hope more youngsters can fulfill their dreams through basketball like I did," said the 39-year-old who was born to an ethnic minority family in Inner Mongolia.
While Thailand boasts extensive cultural, ethnic and demographic links to China, its relationship has not always been so easy.
So legendary are the load-carrying abilities of the Nepalese that the word Sherpa, a term for one of the country's ethnic groups, has become synonymous with "porter.
And more than 20 ethnic groups still wear embroidered shoes as part of their characteristic dress.
However, the results were the same for the small number of children of other ethnic groups in the study, the researchers said.
With Guiyang being home to 15 ethnic groups, Gong would often listen to their folk songs and imitate their dances in her childhood.
To further demonstrate the importance of unity, I would like to take the Chinese Communist Party as a case in point: how could she achieve the victory of the Anti-Japanese War if she failed to unite Chinese people of all ethnic groups?
" --WANG PING, curator of the China Ethnic Museum, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference ",,.
The prince was warmly received by dancing locals from the Dai ethnic group wearing traditional folk clothing.
December 27 of Chinese Lunar Calendar Custom: Bathing and Going to the Market :、 According to the traditional folk customs of the Han ethnic group, people should take a bath and wash their clothes to get rid of bad luck from the past year and welcome the new year.
People from different regions and different ethnic groups celebrate it in their unique ways.
This new thinking included these concepts: · The 'Chinese nation'; · ethnic equality; · 'serving public interests'; · and putting people first.
But despite sharing ethnic heritage and family blood, Sanaubar joined the neighborhood kids in taunting Ali.
Like Ali, she was a Shi'a Muslim and an ethnic Hazara.
Each sub-group of American society-from teenagers to soldiers to thieves to ethnic groups-has its own slang.
The region is home to around 25 ethnic groups, including Naxi, Yi and Tibetan people.
When asked a question at a carefully choreographed public meeting in Russia in August about whether Kazakhstan, which has a large ethnic Russian population, could face a "Ukraine scenario", Vladimir Putin caused alarm in Astana by saying that the Kazakh people had never had a state before Mr Nazarbayev was president.
For each set of photographs, representing different ethnic groups, participants were asked which face was most attractive and which appeared most aggressive.
We live, at the same time, at a critical juncture of our evolution because such problems as ethnic conflicts and regional unrest are increasingly posing a threat to the peace and happiness of the whole human race.
