Word: socializes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other reactions to the editorial were childishly defensive: Most of the authors reacted by first outlining all the political and cultural achievements of their minority organization during the academic year. But they missed the point. I claimed that minority organization were becoming not less political, but more social...
...will clarify my view. In principle, the aims of minority organizations are admirable: to provide a balance of political, cultural and social activities for minorities. But, in reality, I observe that in some minority organizations, the social functions are looming so large that they overshadow the political and cultural ones...
Organization members try to rationalize this trend by claiming that social activities such as dances or Pictionary nights are cultural simply because minorities are gathered together. Yet these are obviously purely social activities...
...that there is anything wrong with purely social activities. It is just that that when minorities begin not only to eat together, but also to dance, play board games, put on productions, engage in sports, study and take study breaks together, then they have enclosed themselves in a self-sufficient community, absent of whites or other minorities. I do not think that this is what minorities, or whites, should strive...
...Guard churches that defined the nation's spiritual and moral ethos from Plymouth Rock through the 1950s are coping with a decline in numbers and social clout. Strategic failures abound in recruitment, missions and education, while demographic trends point to an even bleaker future...