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There is the territory of Lusatia in East Germany, where the Sorbs live. Sorbs are the smallest Slavic race of about 60,000 people. They have lived there for the last 1000 years.  [Intermission?: click http://www.antiracism.info]

The Sorbs had to go through various problems. There was the Prussian domination, nazis, socialists, religious divisions and mass emigrations westwards.   [Intermission?: click http://www.antiracism.info]

For survival they had to make sacrifices. They had to assimilate into the German culture. There was conversion to Christianity. Also they had to accept the German authority. If they had not they would not have been able to keep some aspects of their culture. They have had to struggle to maintain their environment due to mining and mining workers migration and have to make hard choices of moving to other areas. Some of young people have found that because there is little opportunity there, they have moved out to cities.  [Intermission?: click http://www.antiracism.info]

Even with not having there own schools, being dominated by the Church, landowners and state they have always been loyal to their culture.   [Intermission?: click http://www.antiracism.info]

Nowadays, they still maintain their cultures. They wear fanciful colorful costumes. Knowledge is passed by the parents to their children. Regularly they follow their festivals where they perform dances, sing and tell stories.  [Intermission?: click http://www.antiracism.info]

With their fellow majority inhabitants there are hardly any breaches of peace because there are so few of them. In order to develop and maintain their culture they have programs to teach their own language. This is also to grow the number of their language speakers. Some parents are teaching their kids only Sorb language. Though there is very little funding by the government they have their own literatures and publications, television programs and organizations.  [Intermission?: click http://www.antiracism.info]


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