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The Bodos (pronounced BO-ros) are an ethnic and linguistic community, early settlers of Assam in the North-East part of India. According to the 1991 census, there were 1.2 million Bodos in Assam which makes for 5.3% of the total population in the state. Bodos belong to a larger ethnic group called the Bodo-Kachari. The Bodos are recognized as a plains tribe in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. Udalguri and Kokrajhar are considered the center of the Bodo area.
The Bodos represent one of the largest of the 18 ethnic sub-groups within the Kachari group, first classified in the 19th century. Bodos have settled in most areas of North-East India, and parts of Nepal.The BODO People constitute a diverse range of the Indigenous people of North-east India .The overarching term "BODO"(not Boro Kachari) is a collective designation to include the peoples of the region who share some degree of cultural and linguistic heritage; however, the term embraces many distinct populations, societies, and ethnic groups like boro, Dimasa kachari, sonowal kachari, Mech kachari, Rabha kachari, Thengal kachari,Tiwa(lalaung), Sarania, Moran-Motok, Twipras(Tiprasa/Devburman, Reangs(bru), jamatia, Noatia, Uchai, mogh. who each have their own particular traditions, language, cultures, and historical identity.The BODO word is nothing but merely a male Clan of Royal Dimasa Kachri Race. The first Raja of Dimasa Kachari kingdom was belongs to BODO Clan.so Bodo never be a tribe. There is no history in the world that A clan of a tribe can become a community. If it is so then is a distortion of the History Among the 18 groups mentioned by Endle, the Mech in Western Assam, the Bodo in central Assam, the Sonowal and Thengal in the eastern part of the Brahmaputra river are closely related. The others have been either Hinduized (e.g. Koch, Sarania), or have developed separate identities (e.g. Garo).
The people of Assam inhabit a multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious society. They speak languages that belong to three main language groups: Indo-Aryan, Austro-Asiatic, and Tibeto-Burman, with Tai languages fading out after being replaced by Aryan languages. However, ethnic Tai roots run very deep, not just in modern Assam, but the former Assam which corresponds to all of Northeastern India, as far back as 1980s some 8 million people claimed Ahom descent (more than a third), though some intermixing of races is expected. India has attempted to dilute the Mongoloid influence in favor of Aryans, over the decades, resulting in ethnic tensions. The large number of ethnic and linguistic groups, the population composition and the peopling process in the state has led to it being called an "India in miniature".
Geographically Assam contains fertile river valleys surrounded and interspersed by mountains and hills. It is accessible from Tibet in the north (via Bum La, Tse La, Tunga), across the Patkai in the Southeast (via Diphu, Kumjawng, Hpungan, Chaukam, Pangsau, More-Tamu) and from Burma across the Arakan Yoma (via An, Taungup). In the west both the Brahmaputra valley and the Barak valley open widely to the Gangetic plains. Assam has been populated via all these accessible points in the past. It has been estimated that there were eleven major waves and streams of ethnolinguistic migrations across these points over time.
In the time of need
When the world is going through so many changes
So many ups and downs, so many obstacles
So much confusion
I take it upon myself as one of them new leaders of hip-hop
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Time to put it down and do it like this
Now fight for somethin that's worth it
I'm a country boy, never really cared before what was goin on
Now that it came a little closer to home
I got a couple more, but make somethin go uh-uh
Everybody get strapped
If you gon' get it let's get it if you ain't then get back
Big fella, who dat
All the people around the world that's why we get through that
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Pensacola, Parris Island, troops over here, Seals over there
Fort Dix, Fort Lee, Pearl Harbor (let me think)
The Army(ARMY), the Navy(NAVY), Air Force, Marines(RINES)
Green Beret, Navy Seals, New York Police
Even got me dressed in Army Fatigues, how ya love that
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Take the flag, put it in the air, spin it like a helicopter
USA! Come on and raise up
This one's for you, uh-uh, this one's for who
Us, us, us, yes sir
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Take the flag, put it in the air, spin it like a helicopter
USA! Come on and raise up
This one's for you, uh-uh, this one's for who
Us, us, us, yes sir
You remember them days y'all
When the teacher told us
About World War I and World War II, now the time has come
For us to REP OUR COUNTRY!
Wave the flag strong
And could somebody tell Mr. bin Laden
He got a lot of people lookin for him
My house, my home, my hood
My brother, my sister, my cuz
Land of the free, home of the brave, it's the land I love
I had to bring it up, ask Petey Brown If I could change it up
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And sing with us
Raise up(Raise up) Raise up(Raise up) Raise up(Raise up)
For that star-spangled banner
USA! Come on and raise up
Take the flag, put it in the air, spin it like a helicopter
USA! Come on and raise up
This one's for you, uh-uh, this one's for who
Us, us, us, yes sir
USA! Come on and raise up
Take the flag, put it in the air, spin it like a helicopter
USA! Come on and raise up
This one's for you, uh-uh, this one's for who
Us, us, us, yes sir
Thank you Petey Pablo
Cause if we don't stand for somethin, we're bound to fall for anything at all
here reporting live from the front lines
Sending lots of love and prayers out to everybody from every corner of the Earth
Who lost a loved one, a homie, a friend
I'm talkin about a mother, father, sister, brother, even a cousin
On September 11th, we miss you, and we love you, and we will never, ever forget
Now..
USA! Come on and raise up
Take the flag, put it in the air, spin it like a helicopter
USA! Come on and raise up
This one's for you, uh-uh, this one's for who
Us, us, us, yes sir
USA! Come on and raise up
Take the flag, put it in the air, spin it like a helicopter
USA! Come on and raise up
This one's for you, uh-uh, this one's for who
Us, us, us, yes sir