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The proportion of Muslims is higher; some of the people are descended from traders and immigrants from other islands.
Some have lived in Israel for generations, but most have arrived (or are descended from those who arrived) from every part of the world since the modern Zionist movement began in the late 19th century.
Some Indians already resent suggestions they are descended from ancient Asians--such contentions fly in the face of their creation myths.
He's descended the moral food chain--lawyer, politician, TV journalist, TV talk show host--and climbed the income ladder.
, he is descended from three generations of Nazarene ministers.