relationship between the APIs and the in-group Americans with regard to values and traditional tenets. This calls for understanding of the various aspects in order to deduce best ways to communicate between people of different cultural patterns. The API culture, just like the African Americans contain high-context culture of communication.

The main questions that guided the authors research and the consecutive writing of the book mainly revolved around the readiness of the American elite in protecting the African rights and privileges in the leadership and economic situation in the continent. The third research question that guided the author in the formulation of the book is, was the failure to protect the continent was a failure by the African leaders to associate with the right people or was it due to their desire to protect their. Benjamin, Lois; The Black Elite, Nelson-hall Publishers/Chicago, 1991. When conversing, the Asians unknowingly give hesitant and ambiguous statement to appear respectful but they avoid spontaneous responses when making crucial remarks. Understanding these patterns is important for any person as it gives an insight on how to handle economic, social, and political perceptions of a people. There is another difference in communication patterns between the African Americans and the APIs. Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, University of Arkansas Press, Arkansas, 2000. The identification of the elite group within the Black community raised tension with the others as shown by the rift between school administrators and the school-going age. As the old elite died away, it made room for the new black elite to emerge. It was remarkable that blacks appeared to take part at advanced rates than whites after controlling their socioeconomic status differences. According to Cultural contrasts are, of course, sharpest between APIs and American mainstream society.

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