Word: clannish
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After I've exhausted the limited resources of suburbia, there remains that most hallowed of vacation traditions--visiting the relatives. In my family, that's quite a ritual, because the bulk of my father's large family still lives in one very clannish neighborhood in Brooklyn. They inhabit a world where no one ever moves away, women get married at 18 or 19, and everyone knows everyone else and what they're doing. Visiting my grandmother, one of the local matriarchs, is always an occasion Despite our protest that we have eaten, overeaten, or can feel our aortas congealing into...
...Somalis, a proud, clannish people whose skin is black and whose heritage is Arab, regard the Ethiopians as the most persistent of a long line of colonizers that has also included the Egyptians, British and Italians. Over evening fires, the Somalis often recount the exploits of the revered Ahmed Gurey, perhaps the first of the Somali freedom fighters; he attacked Ethiopians in the Ogaden in the 16th century...
...Clannish Refugees. Yet the problem will not go away. The government has pushed through liberal immigration reforms aimed at assimilating newcomers into Swedish society. Trouble is, many of Sweden's 700,000 to 800,000 immigrants-now 10% of the population -have resisted attempts to sprinkle them among the population. When Assyrian "ghettos" began to form last year, the government tried to break them up, but the clannish refugees simply moved back together. David Schwarz, a Polish-born naturalized Swede who edits the Journal of Immigrants and Minorities calculates that if the immigrants keep arriving at the current rate...
Foreigners in Spartanburg are anything but clannish...
...sunny, Transcaucasian Republic of Georgia might be described as the Sicily of the Soviet Union: a warm, wine-growing land whose 5 million, mostly dark-eyed inhabitants are known far and wide as clannish, passionate and shrewd. They are also notoriously unconcerned with the principles of socialism where making money is concerned. The Georgian penchant for private enterprise has long troubled Moscow, and lately its concern has been increasing. Over the past few months, a series of fires and bombings have racked Tbilisi, the capital, and, usually in typical veiled fashion, Communist officials admit that the region's entrepreneurs...