Word: intragroup
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Hold editors’ meeting. Veil intragroup hostility under thin veneer of civility and shooting down each other’s ideas...
Ethnic groups change from promoting diversity to self-segregating when the individual goal of fostering intragroup friendships becomes the goal of the group. Athletes and actors form friendships by virtue of their common affiliation with a specific team or production, but their raison d'etre is limited by their outward-looking responsibility to play games or put on a show...
When ethnic groups organize social events and target them at their own membership only, they make intragroup relationships the sole purpose of their existence. In those purely social events such as karaoke night, study breaks, parties and dances, no real learning or inter-cultural exchange takes place. Such events undermine the supposed rationale for the existence of the organization itself...
...intent of the university. The fears of actual physical segregation of ethnic groups have already been realized by the status quo. Moreover, the fact that the university officially recognizes both the existence and importance of different ethnic groups begs the question of why it will tolerate and even foster intragroup relations by supporting ethnic groups but not intergroup relations by denying them a center to interact. To argue that such a center will isolate different ethnic groups indicates a lack of understanding of what functions such a center would serve...
...there is no consensus about the extent of such intragroup resentment at Harvard. Fields, for example, says that while she felt "animosity" from Blacks at her high school, she has experienced nothing of the sort at Harvard...