But they have not escaped the ethnic encounters often associated with urban migrations, including grumbling by natives that the newcomers are taking over.
The novel slows a little during what feel like rather dutiful ethnic encounters — Lenny takes Eunice to see his parents on Long Island, he meets her parents and sister at a "worship service" in Madison Square Garden — and for a while it seems as if a pre-post-human realist novel is trying to sneak into the satirical pages.
In the context of an inter-ethnic encounter, a plural understanding of morality (Zigon 2008) is appropriate to acknowledge both overlapping and differing notions of right and wrong.
In the case of inter-ethnic encounters, actors or parties exercise agency to negotiate acceptable terms of reciprocal engagements.
The eldest of four siblings, Okewale says he was lucky that his parents actively encouraged him to aim high (he was the first in his family to go to university) and that he benefited from the "individual teachers who helped me", but says that all too often youngsters from poorer and minority ethnic backgrounds encounter barriers that can be difficult to overcome.
Brahmins and Gurungs were the 2 major ethnic groups encountered in our study.
Our study highlights the risk of inappropriate drug use in some ethnic-specific encounters.
However, our study did identify a risk of drugs being used inappropriately in some ethnic-specific encounters.
However, young populations in urban areas are less likely to receive family support and more likely to experience divergent views from different ethnic groups they encounter, as they attempt to adapt to their new urban settings [ 21].
Furthermore, studies relying on self-assignment of migrant status/ethnicity (measured as e.g. birthplace, nationality or self-perception of ethnic identity) may encounter difficulties in reaching a satisfactory level of participation among migrant groups, again causing data to be incomplete [ 7].
He explained in the dictionary's foreword that the sexual and excretory vulgarities were "so well known as to require no explanation," while what he called the "true obscenities," the ethnic slurs, are "encountered with diminishing frequency these days".
