Maroon settlements often possessed a clannish, outsider identity. Clannish feuds broke out in Sutherland and Caithness. Many groups portray Hindus as "clannish, backward and miserly". Being clannish by nature, they oppose any form of domination and servitude. They find a local culture that is clannish, backward, and ignorant. The city is a religious cluster where all kind of clannish found their lively life. West wrote that Frenchtown was "clannish". Cohen used Mazda's suggestion as an example that Japanese were encouraged to not be "clannish". This appointment underscored the clannish character of the Ba'ath Party and the government. Because of this, they develop clannish relationships and long-standing personal ties.