Robert Seeberger wrote:

I wrote
>>
>>But this is what assimilation encourages.
>>
>>
> I dont think that is necessarily true. It may not be true at all.
> I know plenty of people who have fully assimilated mainstream American
> culture who still celebrate Mexican holidays and practice Mexican
> traditions. Add to that that I also know some Americans (anglo types) who
> celebrate along with them.


I said _encourages_, not accomplishes.


> 
> I think in the most reactionary extremes of the multiculturalist movement,
> there is the idea that things shouldnt change or that change is bad.
> Change is inevitable.
> 

Very much so.  The multiculturalism I envision preserves as much diversity as possible.


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Doug

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