The Japanese are famously clannish, insular, aloof.日本人抱团排外、超然冷淡，这是人所共知的。They were a clannish lot, not given to welcoming strangers.他们那帮人抱成一团，不怎么欢迎生人。The college faculty can be pretty clannish, so it's difficult to be an outsider there.那所院校的教师可能非常抱团，外来人在那里处境困难。