Thursday, July 9, 2009
Bangladesh struggles to tame violent militants
Violent militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan get more attention, but militant groups also challenge South Asia's other Muslim nation, Bangladesh, worrying neighbors and countries with Bangladeshi workers or immigrants.
Militants in the low-lying nation of some 150 million people threaten its young democratic government's efforts to achieve stability, and raise fears the groups will connect with and strengthen extremist international networks.
The violent Islamists' presence also discourages much needed aid and investment.
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Militants in the low-lying nation of some 150 million people threaten its young democratic government's efforts to achieve stability, and raise fears the groups will connect with and strengthen extremist international networks.
The violent Islamists' presence also discourages much needed aid and investment.
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Labels: Afghanistan, bangladeshi workers, immigrants, militant groups, muslim nation, pakistan, South Asia, violent militants
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Hindus high-earning, highly-educated immigrants:86% born outside United States
Hindus are largely a highly educated, high earning minority in this country, paralleling the economic achievements of Indian Americans. But 9 percent of them earn $30,000 or less. Most of them are married but very few marry across religious lines. They also have fewer seniors among them than either the national average or the proportion found among other faiths. This is according to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Policy's latest study ‘U.S. Religious Landscape Survey' released end of June.
"The Hindu population is comprised of more immigrants than any other," Allison Pond, Research Associate at Pew Forum and one of those involved in the study, told News India Times. "In fact 86 percent of Hindus were born outside of the U.S. and most of them are from South Central Asia"
The study interviewed more than 35,000 people of which Hindus comprised 257. Asked if this was representative, Pond said Pew had actually taken a larger sample than what was in the population.
"A sample size of about 100 is the accepted industry standard to make generalizations, but we have more than double that for Hindus 257. And in order to get that many cases we did an over-sample of Buddhist and Hindus to get more than a random sample would have fetched us."
Hindus are pretty evenly distributed regionally except in the Midwest where only 13 percent of them choose to live (Table 1). The highest proportion (32 percent) lives in the South, followed by the Northeast (29 percent) and the West (26 percent).
Compared to people of other faiths, Hindus (5 percent) along with Muslims (5 percent) and Buddhists (7 percent) have the lowest percentage of people above 65 (Table 3). Hindus have by far the highest percentage (58 percent) of those 3049. The national average for this age group is 36 percent.
There is a dramatic difference between the numbers of males (61percent) and females (39 percent) among Hindus not paralleled in any of the other faiths (Table 5). In a majority of the other faiths women out number men.
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"The Hindu population is comprised of more immigrants than any other," Allison Pond, Research Associate at Pew Forum and one of those involved in the study, told News India Times. "In fact 86 percent of Hindus were born outside of the U.S. and most of them are from South Central Asia"
The study interviewed more than 35,000 people of which Hindus comprised 257. Asked if this was representative, Pond said Pew had actually taken a larger sample than what was in the population.
"A sample size of about 100 is the accepted industry standard to make generalizations, but we have more than double that for Hindus 257. And in order to get that many cases we did an over-sample of Buddhist and Hindus to get more than a random sample would have fetched us."
Hindus are pretty evenly distributed regionally except in the Midwest where only 13 percent of them choose to live (Table 1). The highest proportion (32 percent) lives in the South, followed by the Northeast (29 percent) and the West (26 percent).
Compared to people of other faiths, Hindus (5 percent) along with Muslims (5 percent) and Buddhists (7 percent) have the lowest percentage of people above 65 (Table 3). Hindus have by far the highest percentage (58 percent) of those 3049. The national average for this age group is 36 percent.
There is a dramatic difference between the numbers of males (61percent) and females (39 percent) among Hindus not paralleled in any of the other faiths (Table 5). In a majority of the other faiths women out number men.
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Labels: achievements, earning, economic, faiths, highly educated, hindus, immigrants, Indian Americans, inter religious marriage, United states
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