Mike, there is a lot of documentation on the cultural quality of the serfs who moved to America. In the Massey Lectures at Harvard, Historian Lawrence W. Levine documented the incredible in depth cultural diversity around such products as Shakespeare and both Italian, French and German operas in the large cities like New York, San Francisco and the opera capital of America, New Orleans. There was more opera in San Francisco than in all of the companies at present combined and it was second to New Orleans. It was said that you could find more operatic diversity within the Boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn than within the countries of Europe at the time. A tram ride would take you to a veritable smorgasbord of operatic performances where to do the same in Europe meant crossing national boundaries. The farm state of Iowa had 1,300 Dutch opera houses and Missouri's opera houses were Czech. The Opera houses in Indian Territory were and still are Italian. The difference today is that the wealthy do not subsidize the taste of the poor as they did with their serfs who then ran off with the intellectual capital to America. Today, those serfs are the wealthy and they see no reason to subsidize Hispanics, Blacks or any American groups other than their own.
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