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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: tejek who wrote (100531)9/2/2011 11:08:41 AM
From: John Vosilla  Read Replies (2) of 149317
 
'So tell me again how homogenized this country really is............is it more myth than reality?'

I think we were closest to that maybe around 1975-1980. Obviously to someone living in any area that hasn't had significant demographic shifts or growth you might not notice. Division by language, by wealth disparity, regional differences, politics, skin color ect..people less willing to merge into the melting pot like I thought was the ideal growing up in the 1970's and trying to 'fit' in myself. Today it is mocked and the internet age and tea party has made it harder for anyone else to trust white American's like me even though I also part an Obama hybrid story myself tied to recent immigrants. Even in the hispanic community I see EIGHT different groups that have emerged, Mexican, Cuban, PR, other central and south American also divided by those who want to assimilate and those who want a spanish first society they hide in.. In the black community you have different Island population's and native African black who live in seemingly different worlds even though to the outsider they are just black folks living in their communities. I guess if we lived in 'simple' world of the right wingers then it is two camps.....there's and the lefty's/socialists/liberals. The biggest hypocrisy of all is the wealthy highly educated liberal type living in and around our big east and west coast cities having anything in common with black and brown minorities in the hoods. If anything the black and brown poor have much more in common with the poor redneck but all are divided, isolated and distrustful in the end..
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