Category: Demographics
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Colombia Rejoins South American Union
After a two-year absence, Colombia is rejoining the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) and signaling its commitment to improved relations with neighboring Venezuela. President Gustavo Petro made the announcement on Tuesday via his verified Twitter account. To guarantee pluralism and permanence, he asked for a name change: the Association of South American Nations. The […]
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Mexicans to Decide Fate of Country’s Most Populous State at First Debate
Mexico’s State of Mexico is gearing up for an important election, and the first gubernatorial debate between the two candidates is set to take place this Thursday. Delfina Gómez of the Juntos Hacemos Historia coalition, which includes Morena, the Green Party, and the Labor Party, will face off against Alejandra del Moral of the Va […]
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Bolivia fights against the shortage of dollars while the demand skyrockets
In Bolivia, the demand for dollars has skyrocketed in recent days, causing long lines at the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB), while citizens scramble to access foreign currency. BCB staff have been working around the clock in an attempt to meet the needs of the public, but the banks simply do not have enough dollars […]
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Chicano Culture Update
Mentions Cultural events in the news, on peoples minds within the Twitter space. Updates consist of 20ish most recent or available tweets that were deemed newsworthy for the Chicano community. Lots of discussions about skin tones, reactions against hollywood and other
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Explicit Content Related To Mexicans – Please Review
For cultural news, please see here: Chicano Culture. In this page, we review possibly objectionable content related to Mexicans. We have stored these tweets in a database. Many people make statements on Twitter ‘with a pinch of salt’. However, therein lies a powerful question: who gets to define what is simply a cheeky reference and […]
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Chicano Chatter On Twitter
Check out the latest chatter from people using the word ‘Chicano’ on twitter. In an effort to highlight more content, we developed a few database queries to routinely retrieve uncontroversial tweets. Some of these contain frivolous references or insightful comments. Unfortunately, in many social media platforms, some of the least informed content often gets more […]
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After Success Unifying Super Middleweight Division, Canelo Calculates Legacy With Cruiserweight Challenge
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is now contemplating challenging a much bigger man who is the champion at the Cruiserweight weight division in the WBC. The Canelo legacy keeps rising as the 31 year old Mexican enters his prime and relishes success compounded repeatedly after multiple successful defenses of titles. Most recently, the Mexican has unified the […]
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Canelo vs Plant Is Finally Here
Canelo is now set to face his last and potentially most difficult fight for Super Middleweight supremacy: Caleb Plant. The Super Middleweight unification bout is set to kick off tomorrow at around 6pm PT from Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s at 75 dollars, which is not terrible alongside a decent undercard. Already, Canelo is a four-division […]
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Mikey Garcia – A Manny Pacquiao Style Loss
The Sandor Martin upset is reminiscent of the great Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao upset against Jeff Horn. In Fresno, California, Mikey Garcia delivered a slow and methodical performance against Sandor Martin. For his part, Martin delivered on the expected southpaw style, consistent jab and constant lateral movement – this proved more valuable to the California judges […]
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Semantic Similarity & Visualizing Word Vectors
Introduction: Two Views On Semantic Similarity In Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, there are various methods and views on how to best describe and justify semantic similarity. This tutorial will be taken as a chance to lightly touch upon very basic ideas in Linguistics. We will introduce in a very broad sense the original concept […]