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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16238)	3/15/2000 9:18:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Shangri- La? Very fanciful, but hardly an accurate characterization of anything I have said. Rates of intermarriage among white ethnics is very high. Significantly, Jews marry gentiles at a rate that exceeds 50%. Rates of intermarriage between Hispanics and other groups is high providing the Hispanics are not recent immigrants. Similarly, of Asians intermarry at a high rate with other groups. Blacks are increasingly intermarrying with whites. I cannot remember the precise figure, but it approaches 20% of blacks. All of this indicates a high degree of acceptance for most minority groups, and an increasing degree of acceptance for blacks. There are other things that are troubling, some of them outlined in the article you adduce, but the trend is towards a fairly successful multi- ethnic and even multi- racial society...........

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16238)	3/16/2000 10:05:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

I don't worry about present trends continuing. The border region of Texas and Mexico has developed its own culture, not quite Mexican and not quite Texan. They've even developed their own unique music and food. San Antonio is my favorite US city! Latins have a joie de vivre that is not present in Anglo/Protestant culture...bring it on I say! But many scholars worry about the loss of community and shared sense of reality among Americans It's amusing that academic hand-wringers are now sounding like Pat Buchanan. I guess they can't handle the dynamism.