Though conditions have improved somewhat over the past few years, the Khadem are still stereotyped by mainstream Yemenese society, considering them lowly, dirty, ill-mannered, immoral and untouchables.

Though film noir is often identified with a visual style, unconventional within a Hollywood context, that emphasizes low-key lighting and unbalanced compositions, films commonly identified as noir evidence a variety of visual approaches, including ones that fit comfortably within the Hollywood mainstream.

Though the Indian music craze soon died down among mainstream audiences, die hard fans and immigrants continued the fusion.

Though ill-received by mainstream American reviewers, Dead Man found much favor internationally and among critics, many of whom lauded it as a visionary masterpiece.

Though there is a Christian occult tradition that goes back at least to Renaissance times, when Marsilio Ficino developed a Christian Hermeticism and Pico della Mirandola developed a Christian form of Kabbalism, mainstream institutional Christianity has always resisted occult influences, which are:

Though the more mainstream body of Modern Orthodox Judaism, such as the Rabbinical Council of America, does not recognize ordination from UTJ.

This is in contrast to various independent media, such as alternative weekly newspapers, specialized magazines in various organizations and corporations, and various electronic sources such as podcasts and blogs ( Though certain blogs are more mainstream than others given their association with a mainstream source.

Though progressive metal was, and has remained, primarily an album-oriented genre, this mainstream exposure increased the genre's profile, and opened doors for other bands.

Though mainstream audiences in the early sixties preferred a clean-cut style – epitomised by the acts that appeared on the Nine Network pop show Bandstand – there were a number of ' grungier ' guitar-oriented bands in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne, who were inspired by American and British instrumental and surf acts like Britain's The Shadows – who exerted an enormous influence on Australian and New Zealand music prior to the emergence of The Beatles – and American acts like guitar legend Dick Dale and The Surfaris.

Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb's entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry.

" Though well-received by both peers and critics, and attaining a few moderate pop and several major R & B hits while at Atlantic, Burke never broke through into the mainstream as did Sam Cooke or Otis Redding, who covered Burke's " Down in the Valley " for 1965's Otis Blue.

Though new to mainstream audiences, Mayall and Edmondson had been using it in 20th Century Coyote for some time.

Though Vanguart had an album released before Mallu Magalhães, it was her emergence that consolidated them both and others as a fully recognised mainstream scene, topping charts and being featured in prime time television and advertising.

Though rejected by mainstream historians, these ideas have been developed by other historians such as David Rohl and Peter James, who have also attempted their own revised chronologies.

Though jazz rap had achieved little mainstream success, jazz legend Miles Davis ' final album ( released posthumously in 1992 ), Doo-Bop, was based around hip hop beats and collaborations with producer Easy Mo Bee.

Though he has had minor roles in mainstream films such as Goodfellas, he is most associated with independent movies, including Buffalo ' 66, which he wrote, directed, scored and starred in ; The Brown Bunny, which he also wrote, directed, produced, starred in and photographed ; Arizona Dream ; The Funeral ; and Palookaville.

Though sprites have been a major component of many early video games, the modern, " mainstream " activity called " Spriting " arose with the advent of widely-available computer graphics programs capable of editing and saving raster images.

Though only briefly brushing the mainstream with the single " Cut Your Hair " in 1994, Pavement was a successful indie rock band.

Though both govern learning and speech, Sarasvati represents the orthodox knowledge of the Brahmins while Matangi — the wild and ecstatic outcast — embodies the " extraordinary " beyond the boundaries of mainstream society, especially inner knowledge.

Though Gregory of Tours made a version, mainstream Christian tradition rejects the Acts of Thomas as pseudepigraphical and apocryphal, and for its part, the Roman Catholic Church finally confirmed the Acts as heretical at the Council of Trent.

Though increasingly debated in academic circles, this approach has remained outside the range of official efforts to resolve the conflict as well as mainstream analysis, where it is eclipsed by the two-state solution.

Though bluegrass has never quite achieved mainstream status, it did become well-known through its use in several recorded plays, including the T. V.

Though the trend faded it did not stop Latinos from having hits in the mainstream market.

Though there are examples of mainstream scientists supporting maverick ideas within their own discipline of expertise, fringe science theories and ideas are often advanced by individuals either without a traditional academic science background, or by researchers outside the mainstream discipline, The media also play a role in the creation and propagation of the view that certain fields of science are " controversial ".

Though FitzGibbon asserts that Thomas ' negativity towards Welsh nationalism was fostered by his father's hostility towards the Welsh language.

Though a sense of nationalism pervaded his earliest surreal landscapes and Head of a Catalan Peasant, it wasn ’ t until Spain ’ s Republican government commissioned him to paint the mural, The Reaper, for the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exhibition, that Miró ’ s work took on a politically charged meaning.

Though Faisal was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Arab nationalism and independence, not religion, was his main motivation.

Though Preveza would remain under Ottoman rule for more than a century, this event – both the short period of Greek militias active in the city, and influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution, and the shock of the massacre which followed – had a part in the development of Greek nationalism towards the Greek War of Independence which broke out three decades later.

" Though scholars may continue to debate this ," Asukile writes, " it would seem hard to disprove that the later advocates of black nationalism in America, who advocated a separate nation-state based on geographical boundaries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, would not have been able to trace certain ideological concepts to Walker's writings.

Along with Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Dr. Mookerjee is considered the godfather of Hindu nationalism in India, especially the Hindutva movement. Though Dr. Mookerjee was not associated with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, he is widely revered by members and supporters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

Though there is no evidence to suggest that Sharif Hussein bin Ali was inclined to Arab nationalism before 1916, the rise of Turkish nationalism under the Ottoman Empire, that culminated in the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, nevertheless displeased the Hashemites and resulted in a rift between them and the Ottoman revolutionaries.

Though officially an institution " above politics ", the Sokol played an important part in the development of Czech nationalism, providing a forum for the spread of mass-based nationalist ideologies.

Though typically associated with nationalism, and by extension, fascism, anarchism had some minor influence on Futurism.

Though the UK parliament remains the sovereign parliament, Scotland has a parliament and Wales and Northern Ireland have assemblies.

( Though a distillery operated near Brecon in the 1990s, making and selling " Prince of Wales " malt whisky.

Though Owain was later reconciled with Cadwaladr, from 1143, Owain ruled alone over most of north Wales.

Though entitled to be styled Princess of Wales, Camilla is the first Princess of Wales whose husband previously had another official consort known as Princess of Wales.

Though Diana, Princess of Wales was commonly called " Princess Diana " after her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales, it was officially incorrect, as Diana herself pointed out, because she was not a princess in her own right.

Though only Eleanor de Montfort can be definitively shown to have used the title, several consorts of native Welsh princes of Wales were theoretically princesses of Wales while their husbands were on the throne.

Though the UK is mostly under the influence of the maritime tropical air mass from the south-west, different regions are more susceptible than others when different air masses affect the country: Northern Ireland and the west of Scotland are the most exposed to the maritime polar air mass which brings cool moist air ; the east of Scotland and north-east England are more exposed to the continental polar air mass which brings cold dry air ; the south and south-east of England are more exposed to the continental tropical air mass which brings warm dry air ( and consequently most of the time the warmest summer temperatures ); Wales and the south-west of England are the most exposed to the maritime tropical air mass which brings warm moist air.

Though Somerset has traditionally had a red dragon as an emblem, the red dragon is more commonly associated with Wales, as its national flag features a red dragon ( Y Ddraig Goch ).

Though the story still cannot be published in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, it has been written about extensively in the Republic of Ireland and Italy and on some Internet websites.

Though English is spoken by most citizens of Wales, many churches hold their services in their native Welsh language.

Though, over time, Britishness also took some root in England ( and Wales ) and Scotland – especially in the days of Empire – by and large people were English / Welsh or Scottish first, and British second.

Though when created the position had responsibility for the National Health Service throughout England and Wales, responsibility for the NHS in Wales was transferred to the Secretary of State for Wales in 1969.

Though there are links between Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic folk musics, very different musical traditions existed in Wales and Brittany.

Though he was member of the medieval guild of poets and notable upholder of that tradition, he was also closely associated with William Salesbury, Wales ' leading Renaissance scholar.

Though his sole first-class match in 1929 was for Wales against the MCC, when qualified in 1930 Walters ' batting helped Worcestershire rise from perennial wooden-spooners to a respectable position.

Though best remembered today for the Royal Vic, he reserved the bulk of his fortune for the Prince of Wales Hospital Fund in London.

Though the ORP passed the NSW Electoral Office's political party registration process in June 2006, allowing it to contest the 2007 New South Wales state election, Jenkins resigned his seat shortly before the election.

Though the museum was intended to preserve aspects of Welsh rural life, it now includes several buildings that depict the industrial working life that succeeded it, itself almost extinct in Wales.