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...it’s not in-group, out-group,” Olshan explains. “There are all sorts of rumors that we punch from the facebook, or that we only punch people with Roman numerals after their names. That’s not what it’s about...
...almost the same time frame as NATO's move eastward, the European Union is putting together a monetary in-group with a common currency. Again, some countries will get in and some will be left out. This is very much a revolution from above, while ordinary citizens are increasingly rebellious. For the moment they are more resentful of the price of the monetary union--budget cutting and unemployment--than of its audacious surrender of national power. Voters in France, where the jobless rate is 12.8%, made that clear with a massive rebuke to the government of President Jacques Chirac...
...involving American Jews are to non-Jews. Then for every ten marriages involving a Jew, 6 will be between a Jew and a non-Jew, and 4 will be between two Jews. It is not hard to see that the 6 inter-marriages involve 6 Jews, while the 4 in-group marriages involve 8 Jews. Thus, in our scenario, in which a considerable majority of marriages involving American Jews are with non-Jews, 57 percent of Jews are still marrying within the religion...
Star's argument may be critiqued with reference to sociological literature. Several prominent sociologists, building on the work of W.E.B. Dubois, developed the concept of "contextual identity." Because identity is contextual, it is possible for there to exist two levels of language "in-group" and "out-group." The theory holds that members of different groups shift their language accordingly based on context. Therefore, terms like "nigger," "wop" and "J.A.P." may be used comfortably when dealing with members of one's own ethnic group without necessarily constituting belief or objective reality about one's situation...
Unfortunately, many of the film's other characters are merely cardboard props that pop up at convenient times: Evie's closet sensitive boyfriend, her shallow in-group friends, Randy's family, her timid gay-guy friend and her aunt, a grump who snaps at everyone in the house like Archie Bunker with...