But anecdotally, she observes, the ability of women and minorities to adapt to and overcome social obstacles seems to make them better team players.
Among the hypothesized reasons for higher rates of emotional problems in minority groups are social exclusion and discrimination, and for immigrant minorities, difficulties adapting to the new society of settlement.
Hope got in the way of straight thinking, but so did fantasy: that the Shiites, whom George H.W. Bush told to rise up in 1991, only to stand by and watch them be massacred, would greet their erstwhile betrayers as liberators; that a privileged Sunni minority would enthusiastically adapt to permanent minority status in a Shiite Iraq.
In broad brush strokes, the defining idea of the former is to single out a national core culture to which minorities have to adapt in the process of integration, in which assimilation is viewed normatively and causally as a precondition for equal inclusion and opportunity.
Success isn't always so simple: Attempts to adapt "Minority Report" and "Rush Hour" for TV in 2015 both failed. .
Somewhat simplified, the Danish approach can be described as restrictive and monocultural, in as much as minorities are expected to adapt and assimilate to mainstream culture in order to be fully incorporated and participating members of society.
"In order to maximize profits at the expense of the city and minority borrowers," Bank of America "adapted its unlawful discrimination to changing market conditions," the lawsuit cited.
He already talks about the Anglo population as a minority, one that will have to adapt to what's coming in Texas politics.
But before the advent of affirmative action, universities were overwhelmingly white and the handful of minority students had to keep quiet and adapt to the majority culture.
But would they go the next step and adapt to the culture of minority government?
