11-06-2005, 01:10 AM
Ghostiger,Nov 5 2005, 10:34 AM Wrote:I suspect its partly because Americans are more individualistic in general. Sure we definetly have our race problems, and to a much lesser degree religion problems, but most of us at least think we should see individuals before groups.
And fortunetly most of our social programs conceptualy deal with minorities on an individual basis rather than as groups. It give worse results in the short term but better results in the long term. I think the reason American blacks still feel so disenfranchised is that they see themselves as a group and were treated as such for too long by well meaning people.
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I guess this is partially why reading this thread, I con't really understand the "culture" issues. I read this and think "languages may be a problem, but what's wrong with having a few food or small religious differences and such? Unless they tend to blow things up more, doesn't seem like a big deal". Could someone actually explain how the culture differences become important? I've never really been someone who cares much about group identities and such.
About the immigration/assimilation issue, seems from an outside point of view that the problem is more about whether people will be able to mix with the economy, and crime and such than anything else.
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