Mongolian American

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Mongolian Americans are Americans of Mongolian descent. Since the 1950s, there has been an increase in Mongolian immigration to the United States. Large communities have sprouted in New Jersey, Illinois, Virginia and Southern California.

Contents 1 Notable Mongolian Americans 2 Mongol-American Cultural Association 3 See also 4 External links and references

[edit] Notable Mongolian Americans

See List of Mongolian Americans

[edit] Mongol-American Cultural Association

The Mongol-American Cultural Association (MACA) was created to preserve and promote Mongol culture in the United States. MACA is involved in humanitarian efforts, and in 1994 sent $10,000 worth of insulin to Mongolia. MACA is currently involved in an orphanage information-finding effort to send aid to the orphaned children of Mongolia. MACA also provides small grants from time to time, and cooperate with other organizations along these same lines.

MACA holds a Chinggis Qan ceremony annually, a continuation of the cult of Chinggis Qan, held in the Ezen Qoroo region of Ordos. This ritual was started in the United States by teachers Gombojab Hangin and C'orj'i Lama in 1988 and is usually held either in late summer or early fall.

Since MACA's aim is to preserve and promote the Mongol culture of the past and present, it is inevitable that MACA would occasionally intersect with more politically oriented groups. It is difficult for MACA to remain completely detached from political issues, and as such, MACA is also supportive of movements and causes that attempt to find political means to promote and preserve Mongolian culture, which fits in very well with Infosystem Mongolia. Another project underway is a translation project. The United Nations Development Project has drafted a set of statutes for governing the formation of corporations in Mongolia. MACA is currently trying to translate it into Mongolian, although much of the English language does not have clear equivalents in Mongolian. In this process, a real need for a much more advanced level legal dictionary was discovered.

[edit] See also

• Asian American

[edit] External links and references

• Official MACA site: [1]
• US Census 2000 foreign born population by country

• Asian Genes This website discusses the genetic distance of different Asian groups.

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