"Contrary to the conventional wisdom that these citizens are motivated by feelings of economic competition from immigrants and minority groups, feelings of cultural threat are the most important driver of their support".
This finding suggests that while it is true that the unsuccessful projects failed in growing their membership, there is no evidence that this failure was due to peripheral members of the group feeling less ownership of the project (or at least, not expressing ownership in their language) and so not moving in to the core.
"This is becoming a very disturbing pattern: A small, uncompromising group, feeling the righteousness of their cause, hurt tens of thousands of innocent people and takes them hostage until they get their complete way," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said.
Disabled people and those too sick to work will be the next group feeling the impact of the Government's drive to reduce the cost of welfare and the numbers out of work.
Tangible characteristics, such as shared culture or common visible physical traits, are important because they contribute to the group's feeling of identity, solidarity, and uniqueness.
Even in a society in which property is regarded as belonging to individuals rather than kinship groups, the feeling of belonging to one's group is still so strong, especially between parents and children, that a person's sense of freedom would not be complete unless he knew that he could pass on his possessions to his children.
(The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, at //www.m-w.com, defines "protest" as "a usually organized public demonstration of disapproval" and "demonstration" as "the public display of group feelings toward a person or a cause").
The music, handcrafts, food, traditional gatherings, dances and tribal customs already formally on the list constitute, Unesco says, "a living heritage, which, when transmitted from generation to generation, gives communities and groups a feeling of identity and continuity that is considered essential for the respect of cultural diversity and human creativity".
There was a statistically significant difference between the work group and sick leave group in the feeling of strength, and was just as equally distributed within gender.
