Lots are cut off from mainstream news and information.
Israeli Palestinian culture was cut off from mainstream Arab developments.
In the west, it is easy to assume that Iran is an isolationist regime, cut off from mainstream international thought and acting regardless of international pressure.
Rōnin characters roam the big screen The rōnin, or "wave man", the masterless samurai forever cut off from mainstream society, is a powerful Japanese icon.
"You don't have the same sense of separateness" typical of Chinese immigration in other parts of Italy, where the new arrivals are more segregated and cut off from mainstream society, he said.
"We drive debate underground", he says, where "black-and-white answers to world problems fester".Too many young Muslims are cut off from mainstream British life including Muslim life.
Using what was then state-of-art equipment - portable at a mere 200-300lb - they recorded the sounds of native Mexican peoples, such as the Cora, Huichol, Seri, Tzotozil and Yaqui, who had always lived cut off from mainstream society.
"We have groups that are really marginalised, cut off from mainstream society, dropouts with no work," says Sven-Åke Lindgren, professor of sociology at Gothenburg university who last year authored a report on gang crime.
As an African-Caribbean with no connection with the book's remote Southern Italian setting what struck a cord with me was one of the book's theme about the effect of living in small villages cut off from mainstream culture.
I went through a period of being completely cut off from mainstream society and only interacting with people who existed on the margins.
In Rwanda alone, 20,000 people who are cut off from mainstream sources of information made use of the public viewing areas in their communities.
