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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (35135)	10/23/2001 12:27:25 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Your family and mine melted in the pot. That was then and this is now. There are factors that make that trend less inevitable than it once was. Notice, please, that I said simply "less inevitable" rather than "unlikely." Once upon a time, it was a given that melting was a step on the path to success. Since then, self-segregation has become more acceptable if not fashionable. It wasn't cool to be ethnic when I was in my formative years. Now it is. Yes, one can be cool and ethnic and still be part of the mainstream, but one might also reject the mainstream. Some mixed ethnic kids deal with it like Tiger Woods--a multi-hyphened person who is very much an individual. Others react by burrowing into their ethnicity or with hostility to one of their heritages. Poet has a teenaged daughter of Korean extraction. I have a friend with a Chinese toddler. Who knows how those kids might eventually resolve the ethnic difference. If you throw the greater cultural support for retained ethnicity, the entitlement mentality that has been fostered over the last few decades, and the sheer numbers of ethnics into the equation, I don't think one can be so assured about the eventual triumph of the melting pot.