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Singapore is a multi-lingual, multi-cultural, and multi-ethnic country, and home to many people of different national, religious, and ethnic origins. The ethnic groups for Singapore are Chinese 74.2%, Malay 13.7%, Indian 8.9%, and other 3.2% (2021).

Native Hawaiians have experienced US occupation of their homeland, political and social disenfranchisement, and compulsory assimilation policies that have adversely affected their health.

The Kingdom of Tonga, also called the Friendly Islands, is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Of the approximate 170 islands that make up Tonga, only about 36 are inhabited.

Malaysia has a multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multilingual society. The original culture of the area stemmed from indigenous tribes that inhabited it, along with the Malays who later moved there.

The Rohingya people are an ethnic Muslim minority group who have historically lived in Myanmar's Rakhine state. The Rohingya have been persecuted since the 18th century and it continues to this day. Currently an estimated 800,000 Rohingya who live in Myanmar are not acknowledged as citizens or an indigenous Burmese people.

Tết, short for Tết Nguyên Đán, is the Spring Festival, Lunar New Year, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year in Vietnamese culture. Based on the lunisolar calendar, Tết is celebrated annually through the preparation of cooking special holiday food – such as bánh tét and bánh chưng - and doing house and family shrine cleaning.

The Hmong New Year which will take place this year Dec 31-Jan 2 is a celebration of the end of harvest and the beginning of a new year. It centers the practice of giving thanks so that new life may begin.

People all over the Phillippines celebrate Simbang Gabi by hanging lights and parols on every window and families attend mass.

Boun Khao Phansa and Boun Awk Phansa mark the first and lastdays of Buddhist Lent in Laos. Starting on July 24th and ending on October 21st this year.

Cheusok, also known as "Korean Thanksgiving", is celebrated this year from September 20thto September 22nd.

Obon (お盆) is an annual Buddhist event for commemorating one's ancestors.

Chaul Chnam Thmey, a.k.a. Khmer New Year Festival, takes place this year from April 14th-16th…

Muslims worldwide celebrate Eid al-Fitr to mark theend of Ramadan, which is a month-long, dawn-to-sunset fast.

The traditional practice of throat-singing originated among theindigenous Turko-Mongol tribes of the Altai and Sayan mountains ofsouthern Siberia and western Mongolia.

The Devon neighborhood in Chicago, sometimes referred to as “Little India”, is a multiethnic corridor in the West Ridge neighborhood filled with Indian and Pakastani Culture.

March 8th is the International Women’s Day…