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4369
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In the past decade the Hispanic population increased 128 percent and the Asian 83 percent in Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, and Catawba Counties. Hispanic and Asians are drawn by a large demand for manufacturing, service, and construction jobs. Employers help these workers adjust to new surroundings by hiring bilingual individuals to work with them, providing work-site classes in the English language, and having company supervisors learn the foreign language of the workers.
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North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 57 Issue 11, Nov 1999, p10, il, f
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29069
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The Southern Oral History Program, a branch of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South, has been collecting oral histories from the South for more than forty years. The lack of Asian stories led to a new project called Southern Mix, which will focus on collecting Asian oral histories about immigration, assimilation, and the blending or preservation of cultures.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 34 Issue 23, June 21 2017, p25, por Periodical Website
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