Word: cliquishly
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...Fashion Show Is Not for Asians," claims an editorial by June Shih (March 8). Of course, it's not. It is for everybody. So often has the world "cliquish" been affixed to the state of being an Asian or any minority, that this fashion show was to blow up the concept, sky high. Yes, it is going to be a "mega-huge-real-Boston-media-coverage-expected-rea l-hairdressers-real make up artists" fashion show, but it could not have been expanded to these proportions if people did not see the potential for its greatness...
More broadly, council officers should work to ensure that some council members do not feel excluded from important decisions about the grants process or the agenda. A decision-making hierarchy is necessary, of course, but it need not be cliquish...
...Asian-American--more specifically, I'm Korean-American. You know the stereotype: studious, passive, sometimes cliquish--but individually inconspicuous and unoffensive, even deferent, crouched over thick science texts in Cabot library for hours at a time, impervious to politics and completely anal...
...10th grade Paglia got her first taste of social ostracism and its consequences. Some of the pretty blonds in her class suddenly turned into bland, cliquish sorority queens. She was left behind as a tomboy with a serious case of ambition. The lesson was not lost on her; to this day she sides fiercely with the outsider...
...some cases, a few early encounters with a campus minority group can turn a student off. Fagan went to a few Freshman Black table and BSA meetings during her first year here. "It was very cliquish," she says, adding that she found BSA "too politicized," plagued by "too many factions." As a result, she chose not to get involved...