Tag Archives: Anayat Durrani

Latinos lead demand in the beauty market

December 20, 2011 – 1:54 pm

by Anayat Durrani WHAT’S HAPPENING Total spending by Latino consumers on personal care products and services rose from $5.3 billion to $7.5 billion between 2000 and 2009, up 41%, according to Packaged Fact’s report, “The Latino Health and Beauty Care Market.” Non-Latino consumer spending grew only 15% (InsideCosmeceuticals.com, 1 December 2011). According to the findings, […]

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Importing enlightenment: American Buddhism blends East and West

August 17, 2011 – 1:22 pm

by Anayat Durrani WHAT’S HAPPENING American Buddhism is on the rise, due to an influx of Asian immigrants and Westerners converting to the faith. The result is an East/West, pan-Asian blend of  Buddhism refracted through an American lens of diversity (VOANews.com, 7 July 2011). At the Hsi Lai Temple in Los Angeles, predominantly Chinese American […]

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More immigrants settling in suburbia

February 10, 2011 – 9:03 am

by Anayat Durrani WHAT’S HAPPENING Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows greater numbers of immigrants settling in small towns and suburbs rather than cities where they typically settled when first immigrating to the U.S.; Los Angeles, for example, showed very little immigrant growth over the last ten years (NYTimes.com, 14 […]

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