Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the Portuguese in Cambridge, the plunge from the familiar rural-agricultural life of the Azores into the mainstream of Cambridge's urban and industrial environment has tremendous cultural impact. Faced with the formidable task of staying economically and socially afloat in a new and alien environment, the Portuguese are confronted with an intense ethnic identity crisis...
Earlier generations of Portuguese immigrants sought to resolve the problem of ethnic identity by complete assimilation into the American mainstream. But while assimilation resolved the Portuguese identity crisis, the price paid was ethnic emasculation, as they diluted their national customs and heritage in American currents...
Today the bilingual education program has eased the transition into the mainstream of English education for the Portuguese immigrant children, but there is still a high drop out rate among Cambridge's high-school-age Portuguese, as they quit school to help out their families economically...
...psychological boost to women struggling to make a success out of an artistic career. But at the same time the Movement has hurt the cause of women artists by fostering a special feminist artistic style for feminist artists. It has separated the self-assertive feminist viewpoint from the mainstream of artistic tradition, and honored women artists for their success in this special area--not for their success in the art world as a whole. By creating a special category for women only, the Feminist Movement has encouraged the public to judge women artists only in terms of other women. Women...
...must differentiate the mainstream of the movement from the basically irrelevant, man-hating, self-denigrating, pathological fringe," she asserts...