Word: behaviorally
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Both these insights into the reasons for non-violent resistance in the sit-in movement are no doubt valid. They deal with the Negroes' beliefs. In addition, one may profitably examine motives for the behavior which becomes fused with those beliefs...
...immigrant to America, of Italian, Irish, Jewish, Negro, or any other descent, has been discriminated against, that is to say, rejected by the middle class, not because of anything innately Italian, Irish, Jewish, or Negro, but because of the extreme difference in appearance and behavior between him and the already middle class American. The problem of tolerance in America has never been met by an acceptance of differences but by a reduction of them...
...represented much of what they had repressed in themselves. At worst, they distorted it terribly--stereotypes inevitably are caricatures, Partly because of little contact with Negroes, the whites did not recognize Negroes' desires to become middle class, that is, their increasingly widespread commitment to education, work, and non-violent behavior. The worst in Negro culture became no different from the worst in white culture, but through absence of personal acquaintance of whites and Negroes, the whole of Negro culture became inaccurately identified with the worst...
...Sukarno, and whirled into and out of receptions given by half a dozen small countries. His most bewildering display was at a big shindig in the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion, where Khrushchev greeted an astonished Dag Hammarskjold with an affectionate bear hug. Explaining his antic behavior to a crony, Hungary's ill-starred Janos Kadar, Khrushchev said: "In the Caucasus Mountains they have a custom-while a man is under your roof he is your friend, but when he goes outside you can slit his throat...
...their best U.S. friend; of a pulmonary embolism; in Norwich, Conn. As a gag in 1949, Harbison, long a kennel owner and writer on dogs, set himself up as a canine psychologist at a Buffalo dog show. Before the show ended, dog owners, seriously perplexed by their pets' behavior, were queueing for consultations. The queue continued for the rest of Harbison's days...