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To: Brumar89 who wrote (218376)	2/14/2007 12:12:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"Fixing the ship sounds like a great thing but it isn't happening. And there are institutional barriers to it happening. And if it doesn't happen, is it right to condemn them all to go down with the ship?" Schools were once the primary focus of melting pot America. Over the past few decades we have watched America go from something close to a mono-culture where the consciousness of the citizens was fairly homogeneous to one in which people are becoming magnetized to the extremes. People are far less accepting of one another's differences. If you look at how people socialize you get part of the picture. In the early sixties the whole community would turn out to support the weekend sporting event. By the mid to late sixties people were splitting off into specialized cliques but still mixing and friendly with one another. By the late seventies and eighties groups were becoming intolerant of one another and in the nineties they were acting adversarially toward one another. In this decade people socialize like this ... going to a chat room to visit. Face to face socializing is becoming abnormal. In addition, we have entered an era of extremism, which is very inhumane while most people are thoughtlessly and giddily going along with it.