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Wrestling As a Solution to Poverty in Senegal

Although wrestling has been practiced in Africa for centuries, it's become a national obsession and big business in Senegal. Professional wrestlers there are superstars, pulling in fees of hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single fight. And for many poor young men, wrestling offers the only chance to earn a good living. 

There is also a major difference about wrestling in Senegal: wrestlers are allowed to fight each other with their bare fists. It’s one of the only countries in the world where that practice is legal.

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The Top 10 Relationship Words that are Not Translatable Into English

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Given their reputation for romance, perhaps it is not surprising that the French have special words for feeling happiness when meeting again after a long time, as well as the heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have. There is also a pragmatic Bantu word for a person willing to forgive abuse a first time, tolerate it again, but never a third time. 

Find out some of the other interesting words in various cultures that uniquely describe the pain and pleasure of relationships. 

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France Takes Fight Against Sexism All the Way to Nursery School 

At what age does gender inequality take root? As early as the crib, according to the staff at one nursery school in Saint-Ouen, in the northern suburbs of Paris. Bourdarias nursery school was the first pre-school establishment in France to adopt an anti-sexism policy, in 2009.

Here's what they do to try to keep gender equality in the classroom. 

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Watch Stigmatized and Shunned, Filipino Amerasians Seek... on PBS. See more from Independent Lens.

"Left By the Ship": Filipino children in search of their fathers

From Independent Lens: "An estimated 50,000 Amerasians live in the Philippines today. As in other Asian countries, these mixed-race young people (especially kids of African American servicemen) often face discrimination and are ostracized. Some were abandoned as infants, and many are teased for being “illegitimate” children of presumed prostitutes and fathers who abandoned them. They are routinely labelled “Iniwan ng Barko” (left by the ship).

It has been 20 years since the bases closed. The film "Left by the Ship" explores: what is it like to be a young Amerasian adult in the Philippines today? What kind of future do these young people have, when their socioeconomic opportunities are limited by the bias of Filipinos and the disregard of the American government?"