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The Japanese submerge themselves in exclusive cliques bound together in rigid hierarchies and protected by high barriers from all who are outsiders. The word ‘group’ has been and is widely used to describe the clusters into which the Japanese social system is fragmented, but group does not convey with sufficient strength the tight manner in which the Japanese band together for mutual dependence and belongingness. ‘Families’ would be an excellent substitute, but the idea of families without blood-ties is so divorced from Western concepts that it could create misunderstanding.
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© 1988 Douglas Moore Kenrick
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Kenrick, D.M. (1988). Cliques. In: The Success of Competitive-Communism in Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19367-7_3
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