ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to conduct psychocultural analyses to examine and analyze in detail what the "expressive" features are that insure both a separate ethnic persistence, and in some instances, a maladaptive response on the part of many from particular ethnic minorities. It considers "sacred", if not quasi-religious, motives for ethnic persistence related to subjective needs for group continuity that persist or are even enhanced as a response to social derogation. Koreans in Japan have responded to their present conditions by an ethnic consolidation not dissimilar in some modes of social adaptation to those that have been occurring in the black American population. In an ethnically pluralistic society, an individual may retain his minority status to avoid certain obligations that are part of the role expectations of the majority. The use of educational practices to resolve the complex issues of minority identity involves irreconcilable instrumental and expressive difficulties.
