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A pachuco in Mexico City, Mexico
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The Mexicans keeping the 1930s alive

By Rafael Estefania

(Credit: Jimmy Nelson)
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In search of a Dutch homeland

By Deborah Nicholls-Lee
(Credit: Zinara Rathnayake)
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Sri Lanka's last indigenous people

By Zinara Rathnayake
Church and snowy mountain view at Agrafa, Greece
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The Greek region too remote for maps

By Alex Sakalis
Geisha walking in the snow in Niigata City, Japan
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Japan's little-known geisha centre

By Steve John Powell and Angeles Marin Cabello
Boat full of men from Orang Seletar tribe on a wild boar hunt
Culture & Identity

Singapore's forgotten first people

By Wee Ling Soh
Stone memorial at Peter Verigin's tomb in Brilliant, British Columbia
Culture & Identity

Canada's little-known Russian sect

By Brendan Sainsbury
What was once a thriving culture with a distinct heritage has dwindled to a population of 200 (Credit: Aldis Pinkens)
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Europe's smallest ethnic minority

By Alastair Gill
Kihnu, known as the Island of Women, is in the Baltic Sea off Estonia's western coast. (Credit: Jean-Luc LUYSSEN/Getty Images)
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Europe's last surviving matriarchy

By Anders Jørgensen
The Musandam Peninsula's wildly dramatic coastline has given it the nickname 'the Norway of Arabia' (Credit: CristianDXB/Getty Images)
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Oman's spectacular 'Norway of Arabia'

By Daniel Stables
(Credit: Alex Robinson/Getty Images)
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A seafaring people with five genders

By Daniel Stables
The Gullah Geechee and their culture are at risk as climate change threatens the coastal areas where they live (Credit: Richard Ellis/Alamy)
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The US islands of slave descendants

By Erica Chayes Wida
The Ainu were assimilated into Japanese society and their traditional tattoos and other customs banned (Credit: Michele and Tom Grimm/Alamy)
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Japan’s forgotten people

By Ellie Cobb
The Saugeais valley, geographically isolated by the river Doubs, has developed a unique identity (Credit: typo-graphics/Getty Images)
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The French republic no-one knows

By Lebby Eyres
Honfest takes place in over two days in June in the Baltimore suburb of Hampden (Credit: JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado/Getty Images)
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The US’ little-known subculture

By Addison Nugent
Each “paisa” accumulated and saved is an ode to the trials the Memons of Karachi overcame (Credit: Asif Hassan)
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Why these people are so good with money

By Aysha Imtiaz