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In the United States, according to a just-published survey of participation in the arts, fewer than 4 percent of the public claims to have attended an opera in the last year (and people probably exaggerate about this, just as they do when asked how often they have sex).
One wouldn't want to exaggerate the points of contact but, curiously, The Capeman is the first musical since Show Boat in 1927 to use the word "niggers" in its opening number:
10 Obsession With Profits: The stock market's unhealthy fixation on expected earnings led many executives to exaggerate balance sheets through accounting tricks, distorting true stock worth.
The authors are critical of those who, in their view, exaggerate the significance of white racism, the significance of the black underclass, and the extent to which blacks remain outsiders.
If you exaggerate the claims for EBM, you intensify the natural defensiveness of those who feel themselves not to be completely in line with the new regime.