Word: clannishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occupy some of Nairobi's finest homes; but the Asians are for the most part small shopkeepers-duka wallahs to the Africans-and junior civil servants, who have never found middle-class security in their middle-class vocations. African nationalists have long complained that the Asians are a clannish, alien people whose only interest in Africa lies in the profits to be wrung from African customers. "The Indians are opportunists and quislings," cries Nyasaland's Prime Minister Hastings Banda. "Everywhere in the country they are taking business from African businessmen." The Asians make a habit of shipping much...
Readymade Profit. The roster of top European executives today reflects profound changes in Europe's business community. Before World War II, most big European companies were owned and run by clannish, long-established families that kept their business affairs strictly secret, regarded advertising as an unnecessary extravagance and shunned public attention. The goal was high profit on low volume, and membership in a tidy cartel generally eliminated the danger of painful competition over prices and markets. A rigid class system kept workers from rising into executive ranks; the notion of increasing national buying power by raising wages was regarded...
Bavarians are a clannish lot, devoted to their native soil. One Bavarian member of the federal Bundestag, Socialist Waldemar von Knoringen, became so despondent in Bonn - 265 miles from home - that he would dial long-distance just to hear the operator's tape-recorded voice say "Munich, Munich, Munich...
Dazzling Food. Once they reach Kowloon or Victoria, they are relatively safe, for the Chinese of Hong Kong are close and clannish and, in a crisis, do not desert their own. The refugees disappear into the life of the Hong Kong poor-grim by Western standards but, measured against Red China, a bit of paradise...
Potatoes & Piracy. Such fraternization with the native population is unusual among normally clannish foreign workers' colonies. In the Dutch textile town of Enschede, when young Italian workers tried to date local girls, street fighting with Dutch boys broke out and dance halls put up signs warning, "Italians Not Wanted." The row brought an investigating commission of European Parliamentarians to the scene, who concluded that part of the upset was gastric: Italians boarded with Dutch families, ate heavy Dutch food, and "digesting potatoes, even for one day," concluded the committee soberly, "is a punishment for an Italian...