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Australia is the future of the Western world.
This is the issue with technocratic government: zero understanding of anything deeper than “if it works, do it!”
We really need a new frontier. Hopefully space travel happens before human beings become completely domesticated.
Restaurant for Italians. Suggests that non-Italians don’t belong here.
Restaurant by Italians. Suggests that Italians make the food here and that it’s not for a particular group.
In response to your question, yes I would hope that as Latinos continue to become a larger portion of the population, they join the overall “American” culture and influence it. Not remain as a separate group with a separate language and separate media.
If you look at the statistics, this already happens. Second and third generation Latinos identify more as American than as Latino.
You are being sarcastic and not engaging in good faith.
No, it doesn’t, and that makes no sense. The melting pot idea means that everyone works toward a cohesive national identity and recognizes contributions from everyone. It doesn’t mean that every group should be separate and excluded from each other.
Otherwise I don’t really get the solution. Don’t try to integrate different cultures, thereby continuing to exclude them?
And yes, groups of white Americans that were hostile to each other a century ago are now so integrated that it’s not even thought about. An Italian Catholic marrying a German Protestant was a huge deal in 1900. Today it is nothing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
Of course they didn’t have it as bad as black Americans, but that isn’t the topic of this discussion.
I’m struggling to see how your comment relates to what I’m saying.
As I said, this is easy to observe from abroad, where there is no space to differentiate between black Americans and white Americans. They’re all just Americans and they mostly act the same way.
My point is that this identity was expanded to be inclusive in order to build social cohesion. That was a good thing, but now let’s rename it to just “American” and include all ethnic groups, instead of going backwards.
by, not for
Looking at top musicians, artists, and other cultural figures, it seems to me like this is already largely the case. Hip hop sales come in large part from white people. I want more of this cultural sharing, not isolationism.
Instead we seem to be going backwards. 2050 New York City might look more like 1900 than 2000.
> Disneyland with the Death Penalty
> We sent William Gibson to Singapore to see whether that clean dystopia represents our techno future.