> I think I can think of two (small) exceptions: the Chinese who came over in the 1800s and the Amish.
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> --- On Fri, 3/20/09, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's also been the dominant ideology among
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>> every immigrant group. Hence the U.S. model of integration:
>> Every ethnic group aspires to become an upstanding pillar of
>> American capitalist individualism, in return for which they
>> get a parade, maybe a holiday, ritual pandering from local
>> politicians, etc. What the French call communitarisme.
Yup, those are exceptions. For a long time the Chinese played a role on the west coast comparable to that of blacks elsewhere.
SA