Word: clannishness
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After pointing out that Utah's population had now acquired "great diversity," Hinckley admonished the Mormon majority for being clannish and adopting holier-than-thou attitudes. The speech has become a watershed in Utah, a focus of debate over the church's future. Hinckley, whose smiling bonhomie floats over such controversy, told TIME in an interview in his office, "I am an open individual. I think we all ought to be that way--but it is all a process; it doesn't happen in a day." Since becoming president in 1995, the media-savvy Hinckley has been trying to gently...
...After pointing out that Utah's population had now acquired "great diversity," Hinckley admonished the Mormon majority for being clannish and adopting holier-than-thou attitudes. The speech has become a watershed in Utah, a focus of debate over the church's future. Hinckley, whose smiling bonhomie floats over such controversy, told Time in an interview in his office, "I am an open individual. I think we all ought to be that way-but it is all a process; it doesn't happen in a day." Since becoming president in 1995, the media-savvy Hinckley has been trying to gently...
...After decades of economic decline and population shrinkage - and a prickly attitude that repelled visitors and investors alike - Marseilles is hot again. Its growing popularity is changing the city's long-standing reputation as a closed, clannish, and corruption-plagued place where people were more interested in swilling pastis and playing pétanque than putting in a solid day's work. That unflattering image darkened further in the late 1980s and much of the 1990s when record unemployment and the city's large immigrant population made Marseilles the electoral power base of the far-right National Front. Today Marseilles...
...left rebranded itself, the right retrenched. The Tories' abysmal campaign exposed the party as hoary and clannish, with no creative agenda beyond nationalist scaremongering about the euro and asylum seekers. Voters didn't go for it, just as Germans have turned away from the periodic Euro-skeptic and anti-immigrant noises made on the right. The center-right's lurch toward nationalism has disheartened libertarians who believe the free movement of people and capital are core conservative principles. And corruption scandals in numerous countries have damaged conservative credibility...
...ethnic self-segregation, or a slight proclivity for the sciences over the humanities among Asian-Americans. And I might, if I were so inclined (not that anyone would be), get downright nasty and suggest that a large chunk of these self-segregated, math-and-science types are self-absorbed, clannish and downright weird...