Word: byong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been ignored by their families and their peers find themselves the center of attention of an attractive group of young people who spend hours talking and working with them." This is not just an American phenomenon. Similar groups have sprung up in Western Europe and Japan. Writes Byong-Suh Kim, chairman of the sociology department at New Jersey's Montclair College: "Japanese society has become highly fragmented and materialistic, making young people long for communal solidarity with an authoritarian figure and specific behavior guidelines...