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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yogizuna who wrote (6379)	5/26/2000 3:30:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9127

Yogi, I fear you do not know as much about American sociology as you think you know Cuban. America is a peculiar blend of meritocracy and socialism and luck. When people proclaim the great freedom we have to be and do, they are ignoring the studies that show how little mobility there is in the lower end of our society. We are extremely class-stratified and children born in the projects remain in the projects in alarming numbers; mobility is almost non-existent. The only "bad choice" these children made was being born to parents already entrenched, and their "freedom to get out" is an elusive dream at best, with little chance to realize it. There are some who have never even left the physical barriers of their neighborhoods. In some ways, compared to a child born in Watts, our little Elian has a childhood that offers more opportunities in education and employment, not to mention superior health and safety conditions. This is not to extol the virtues of Cuba, only to point out that your statement is inaccurate. The underbelly of our society may be more like Cuba than we want to admit.