Word: clannish
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Above all else, the Japanese have acquired a reputation for being clannish and arrogant. Even more than the Americans, who are famous for bringing the U.S. along with them, the Japanese move in with their own beer, newspapers, chefs, wines, delicacies and restaurants. "They form an empire of themselves," said Thailand's Bunchana. "They play golf together, eat together, go to their own Japanese schools...
...white man's problems. In the city you lose your contact and feeling for the land. You become isolated." Hiner Doublehead, a Cherokee with two children, took his family to Chicago. "God, it was a jungle when we got there," he recalled. "The people lived like foreigners ?unfriendly, clannish. It was the closeness and the crammed-in living that got to me. The bars were the only places to get acquainted and to unwind. But the friendships never went far. Nobody would invite you up to his house. I didn't feel like I was human up there...
...does and get ahead instead of dropping out of school?' " A 1964 study of Negro attitudes by the University of California Survey Research Center indicated that blacks in general were more favorably disposed to Jews than were white gentiles, and more inclined to reject stereotypes of the Jew as "clannish" or "conspiratorial." Sociologist Drake notes this feeling of ambivalence: "You hear comments "that among Jews you find your best friends and your best enemies...
...decent job in their lives-nor until last summer ever had much hope. General Motors has had great success in its Pontiac plant (219 of the 230 hired after the riot in that city were still at work last month), the apparent reason being the city's smalltown, clannish social structure. Older workers often know the new men, cover up for them when they do something wrong, find out where they are if they fail to report to work...
...Clannish, often introverted, programmers labor over problems that demand logical thinking (though not necessarily mathematical background) and painstaking attention to detail-yet defy solution by any standard or scientifically disciplined approach. "Some call it an art and some call it black magic," says A. W. Carroll, RCA's manager of systems programming. Whatever it is, the talent is scarce enough that many companies show great tolerance for "wild ducks." "I overcame my prejudice against working for IBM," says full-bearded Manhattan Computer Expert Larry Josephson, 28, "when I was interviewed by a man dressed in a musty old suit...