While the earliest cuisine of the United States was influenced by indigenous American Indians, the cuisine of the thirteen colonies or the culture of the antebellum American South ; the overall culture of the nation, its gastronomy and the growing culinary arts became ever more influenced by its changing ethnic mix and immigrant patterns from the 18th and 19th centuries unto the present.

While in the beginning only Pashtuns were allowed to participate in the Jirgas, later other ethnic groups like Tajiks and Hazaras were allowed to participate as well, however they were little more than observers.

While the Bamar heartland was directly administered ( first as a part of India and then, from 1937, as British Burma ), ethnic regions outside the heartland were allowed some measure of self-rule along the lines of the Princely States of India.

While ethnic Poles were subject to selective persecution, all ethnic Jews were targeted by the Reich.

While osteoporosis occurs in people from all ethnic groups, European or Asian ancestry predisposes for osteoporosis.

While their subjects were composed of numerous ethnic groups ( such as Italians, Romanians, Hungarians, etc.

While the Manchus followed the governmental structure of the preceding Ming dynasty, their ethnic policy dictated that appointments were split between Manchu noblemen and Han Chinese officials who had passed the highest levels of the state examinations, and because of the small number of Manchus, this insured that a large fraction of them would be government officials.

While some scholars believe the Belgae south of the Somme were a mixture of Celtic and Germanic elements, their ethnic affiliations have not been definitively resolved.

While not observed nationally throughout the United States, a number of traditionally ethnic French cities and regions in the country have notable celebrations.

While much of the early population was of Yankee stock, over the next 100 years numerous ethnic groups moved to the city.

While the majority of the population consider themselves ethnic Pohnpeians, Pohnpei is more ethnically diverse than any other island in the FSM.

While many of them later relocated to Sierra Leone, some of their descendants, called Fernandinos, can still be found in Malabo and the surrounding area, where they constitute a distinct ethnic group, speaking their own Afro-Portuguese pidgin dialect.

While the ethnic based army was generally successful on the battlefields, they began to have negative effects on the Fatimid's internal politics, traditionally the Berber element of the army had the strongest sway over political affairs, but as the Turkish element grew more powerful they began to challenge this, and eventually by 1020 serious riots began to break out among the Black African troops who were fighting back against a Berber / Turks Alliance.

While the earliest settlers primarily came from England, colonial Charleston was also home to a mixture of ethnic and religious groups.

While they were opposed to the participation of Jews in their movement, like Heinrich von Treitschke later, they did allow the possibility of the Jewish ( and other ) minorities to participate in the German state if they were to abandon all signs of ethnic and religious distinctiveness and assimilate into the German Volk.

While some in the Jewish community have praised the show's depiction of Cartman holding an anti-Semitic attitude towards Kyle as a means of accurately portraying what it is like for a young Jew to have to endure bigotry as an ethnic minority, other Jews have blamed South Park and Cartman for having found themselves surrounded by " acceptable racism ".

While government policy and public debate in France in recent years has returned to a valorization of regional differences and a call for decentralization of certain aspects of the public sphere ( sometimes with ethnic, racial or reactionary overtones ), the history of regional displacement and the nature of the modern urban environment and of mass media and culture have made the preservation of a regional " sense of place or culture " in today's France extremely difficult.

While recognizing that artifacts do not possess an inherent " ethnic ascription ", some artifacts may have been used as " emblems in identity and otherness – of belonging and exclusions ".

While a sense of ethnic identity may coexist with racial identity ( Chinese Americans among Asian or Irish American among European or White, for example ), the long history of the United States as a settler, conqueror and slave society, and the formal and informal inscription of racialized groupings into law and social stratification schemes has bestowed upon race a fundamental social identification role in the United States.

While the distinct ethnic neighborhoods formed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries have changed over the years, the legacy of immigrants who came to work in the mills can be found in the various parishes and restaurants throughout the city.

While this strong immigrant heritage is still pronounced throughout the city ; assimilation and migration contributed to Chicopee's transition from a collection of ethnic communities into a unified and multi-ethnic city.

While never displacing other peoples entirely, they became the predominant ethnic group.

While the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was a multi-national empire, which allowed a relatively large degree of cultural autonomy to the different peoples and ethnic groups, Italy was a nation state, and its governments had little intention to allow the existence of separate national movements and identities on its territories.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While based on Lindy Hop, it does have clear distinctions.

While biologists sometimes use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race is often used in a naive or simplistic way.

While various gaits are given specific names, the complexity of biological systems and interacting with the environment make these distinctions ' fuzzy ' at best.

( Proper names tend to be especially orthographically conservative — compare this to changing the spelling of one's name to suit a language reform in the U. S. or U. K .) While this may be considered primarily a graphical representation or rendering problem to be overcome by more artful fonts, the widespread use of Unicode would make it difficult to preserve such distinctions.

While these distinctions were never hard-and-fast rules and now mean little, it has the reputation of being home to New York City's cultural and artistic workers, while the Upper East Side is traditionally perceived to be home to commercial and business types.

While regular units of the two armies are balanced ( only the spells wielded by spellcasters differ ), the heroes have greater distinctions.

While " most attributes such as micro-residue distribution patterns and micro-wear will develop similarly on points used to tip spears, darts or arrows " and " explicit tests for distinctions between thrown spears and projected arrows have not yet been conducted " the researchers find " contextual support " for the use of these points on arrows: a broad range of animals were hunted, with an emphasis on taxa that prefer closed forested niches, including fast moving, terrestrial and arboreal animals.

While these distinctions are useful, in actual practice the boundaries are often less clear.

While both male and female keep long hair, there are distinctions in the dress within the Aka.

While further disenfranchising Hutus socially and politically, this helped to solidify the idea that “ Hutu ” and “ Tutsi ” were socioeconomic, not ethnic, distinctions.

While colonial warfare had led to a blurring of these distinctions in the British army, tradition remained strong in the cavalry arm of some other nations.

While making more subtle distinctions, this model of direct versus indirect rule was dominant in academia from the 1930s until the 1970s.

While Indo-European languages tend to make tense distinctions in terms of before or after some reference event, Inuktitut makes a number of somewhat fuzzy distinctions depending on how far into the past or the future the event took place.

While English draws some of these distinctions as well, French draws them in many places where English does not ; as a result, there are many more pronouns in French than there are in English.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

While there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.

While Plato finally allows a few acceptable hymns to the gods and famous men, still he clearly leaves the way open for further discussion of the issue.

While most of his beliefs were still unsettled, he knew that he did not believe in killing.

While 2-year-olds are still gaining most of the attention at the track, green horses are starting to go a bit, and Jimmy Cruise has several that can really make it.

While clay is still pressed in mold, press three equally spaced holes 1/4'' '' deep, using pencil eraser, in bottom of clay to allow for proper drying and firing.

While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.

While there are still many bugs to be ironed out, the technique is fast developing.

While patent suits are still among the most complex and expensive forms of litigation, these rules have saved litigants uncounted sums of money.

While details are still to be worked out, Ratcliff said he expects to tell home folks in Dallas why he thinks Berry's proposed constitutional amendment should be rejected.

While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.

While strong forms of the various dialects are not normally fully comprehensible to Northern Germans, communication is much easier in Bavaria, especially rural areas, where Bavarian dialect still predominates as the mother tongue.

While the improvements are attributed primarily to changes in the brain and not just the hip and / or ankle joints, it is still unknown whether the improvements are due to adaptations in the cerebellum or compensation by other areas of the brain.

While this disturbance is usually small, it is still noticeable to the human ear.

While many of Alcott's ideas continue to be perceived as being on the liberal / radical edge, they are still common themes in society, including vegetarian / veganism, sustainable living, and temperance / self-control.

While the emperor's palace no longer exists, the church built by Charlemagne is still the main attraction of the city.

While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.

While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the US and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by several hundred people.

While still a deacon under Alexander's care, he seems to have been brought for a while into close relations with some of the solitaries of the Egyptian desert, and in particular with the Anthony the Great, whose life he is said to have written.

While supervising the ceasefire after the Agacher Strip War, an FABF SA. 316B Alouette III crashed at Kouni on 14 January 1986, leaving only one SA. 316B still in service with the Escadrille d ' Hélicoptères.

While the inning is still being played, this last scenario can cause a temporary situation where a run has already scored, but its earned / unearned status is not yet certain.

While he was away his wife, still in her mid-twenties, gave her children " constant " beatings, then ignored them most of the time as she performed the public duties of the bishop's wife.

While in the mix, ensure that the tracks are still synchronized, adjusting the records if needed.