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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (714646)	11/22/2005 12:30:25 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 769670

To me mainstream is where folks from other countries adopt the local customs, allow their children to go to schools and pick up what other kids do and not shield them and force them to do, eat and dress like the people in their countries etc. Within the mainstream there are differences of opinion which I would call what you state. Without naming any particular community, I would venture to say that there are many who come here, shop only in stores that people from their immigrant community own, speak their language amongst themselves when they are in a public group, would only vote for candidates who belong to their ethnic community etc. etc. These are the people I consider who are not part of the mainstream. Ii am not advocating that they abandon their culture and language. But at the same time I would not want them to uphold them "at any cost". And if they do, I do not consider them as mainstream.