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To: Tom Trader who wrote (44387)6/2/1998 6:49:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin  Read Replies (1) of 58727
 
I think each of us has been "stung" in one way or another by this discussion.

The melting pot concept is still very real here. It has become more vocal, perhaps, as a result of the world getting smaller. But things are not that much different today in my estimation than they ever were. Each wave of immigration carries with it it's own form of discrimination.

I believe the awareness, or acceptance, of this reality is absent from this discussion. For our part, you are stung by the concept embraced by many..."Love it or Leave it". Me, I get stung by the concept that my immigrant parents broke their necks to find acceptance just so new citizens or long-term visitors I.D. me as racist or part of American Imperialism.

For my own part, I came within minutes of being next to the explosion in the WTC. An event like that could easily move me off-center with respect to tolerance of foreign nationals. I like to think I'm more rational than to hate people or malign them simply because of something that was the doings of a small group of people and not attribute it to the entire body politic of a nation.

Using the other bugaboo to make an example, it was a mob psychology that killed the Christian Prophet. Rarely, someone comes along that attributes it to the entire Jewish race. Is that rational? Of course not. So why malign Americans for slavery....particularly because there were few countries in the world that did not have a hand in it. The U.S. is less caste-driven...I think you touched on that...and other societies do not understand or see that.

Personally, I would rather live here than in a country where the circumstances of my birth dictate where my station in life shall be.
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