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Re: Inter-racial, Inter-religious, Inter-national relationships
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 5 May 2001 01:54:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Maggie Cambron writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jorge Rodriguez writes:
> > > I don't agree that the US is a melting pot. A melting pot suggests no
> > > divisions and we know that is not the case. The US is more like a
> > > salad. You can still pick out the individual pieces in the bowl.
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> > I tend to agree. It is very hard to maintain an identity in more than one
> > race or culture. My observation is that children with parents of different
> > races often end up identifying with one race over the other(s), but not
> > without a feeling that they are being forced to compromise their identities.
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> Society does it's best to enforce that outcome - I always get steamed when
> my son comes home from school with one of those "mark only one" forms under
> "race" (I always disobey the rule and point out to my son why I'm doing it).
> At least the national census finally had a "multi-racial" choice.
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> Oops, did I just give away that mine is an inter-racial marriage? :-)
We've been doing standardized testing for the past couple of weeks here in
California, and I noticed on the form the students had to fill out that there
are now two complete sections provided for the students to indicate their race
or ethnicity-- the first one is for the race/ethnicity with which they most
identify, and the second is a place to indicate any other if applicable. So
progress IS slowly being made.
Maggie
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