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  2. Pakistani Americans - Wikipedia

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    Pakistani Americans are known to assimilate more easily than many other immigrant groups because they have fewer language barriers (English is a co-official language of Pakistan and widely spoken in the country among professional classes), higher educational credentials (immigrants are disproportionately well-educated among Pakistanis), and ...

  3. Pakistani diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Predominantly Islam minorities of Christianity, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Overseas Pakistanis (Urdu: بیرون ملک پاکستانی نژاد), or the Pakistani diaspora, refers to Pakistanis who live outside of Pakistan. These include citizens that have migrated to another country as well as people born abroad of Pakistani descent.

  4. White flight - Wikipedia

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    e. White flight or white exodus[ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] is the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse. [ 4 ][ 5 ] Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the terms became popular in the United States. They referred to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries ...

  5. Second-generation immigrants in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A second generation immigrant can also make use of established networks in the coethnic community. These networks provide these children with additional resources beyond those offered by the government, such as gateways into well paying jobs in businesses established by the ethnic community. [12]

  6. Taliban - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, in Pakistan, the word Talibans is often used when referring to more than one Taliban member. In Afghanistan, the Taliban is frequently called the گرُوهْ طَالِبَانْ (Goroh-e Taleban), Dari term which means 'Taliban group'. [ 99 ] As per Dari/Persian grammar, there is no "the" prefix.

  7. Al-Qaeda - Wikipedia

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    Fazlur Rehman Khalil of Kashmiri militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen was a signatory of al-Qaeda's 1998 declaration of Jihad against America and its allies. [318] In a 'Letter to American People' (2002), bin Laden wrote that one of the reasons he was fighting America was because of its support to India on the Kashmir issue. [ 29 ]

  8. History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    The immigration of Eastern Orthodox ethnic groups was much lower. [citation needed] Lebanese and Syrian immigrants started to settle in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The vast majority of the immigrants from Lebanon and Syria were Christians, but smaller numbers of Jews, Muslims, and Druze also settled.

  9. Nativism in United States politics - Wikipedia

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    Is opposition to an internal minority on the basis of its supposed “un-American” foundation. Historian Tyler Anbinder defines a nativist as: [2]. someone who fears and resents immigrants and their impact on the United States, and wants to take some action against them, be it through violence, immigration restriction, or placing limits on the rights of newcomers already in the United States.