I meant more the white population(s) and the different immigrant groups: Chinese, Indian, Mexican, S.American, etc. We all live in little enclaves with our own customs, environment, etc. It is very rarely, for instance, that I have seen a non-Indian person in an Indian grocery store or movie theatre (worse, a typical Westerner consumes Indian culture via made for the West movies like Slumdog Millionaire). Similarly in India... the Tamilians in Bombay, AFAIK, are concentrated in certain areas. Many northerners in Madras cannot even speak the language (Tamil) despite growing up in the city. etc. etc. There is no automatic "melting pot" happening in any of these environments merely due to the juxtaposition of groups. I exaggerate of course -- there is the universality of the dosa and Shah Rukh Khan, after all (in India), ;-)
--ravi
> --- On Tue, 7/21/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
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>> Sometimes yes, sometimes not, no? Let's go with Chris's
>> example of India: sure some in northern India now eat
>> "dosas" and some Hindi movies too run for 400+ days in
>> Madras, but as Carrol describes it, they are quite a bit
>> insulated from each other as well. And the same seems to
>> hold for the communities in the Queens or here in New
>> Jersey.
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