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...contained ethnic communities as they are about anything that could be called a dominant culture. Indeed, even whatever could loosely be called a “dominant culture” derived from white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, is like the croutons in a soup whose broth and flavor come from African-Americans, Jews, and other historically oppressed minorities. The immigrant can imagine him or herself adding spice to this soup. The melting pot beckons. The very ease with which one can defer assimilation in the United States seems to facilitate it. There are estimated to be 6.5 million Muslims...
...Some conflicts between Western values and traditional immigrant cultures will be easy calls, like footbinding, or East African immigrants who seek out doctors to perform genital mutilation on their daughters. Other issues, like burqas, are more problematic. Fundamental values, like gender or racial equality, need to be weighed against freedom of expression. Each country has to find its own balance between tolerance of immigrant cultures and preservation of its own distinctive national values and traditions...
...bold choice being floated is state representative Jennifer Carroll of Jacksonville, a Trinidad-born, African-American Republican who has been the state house's majority whip and deputy majority leader. A rising star in the Florida GOP, Carroll, 49, served 20 years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a lieutenant commander. Another is GOP state representative Anitere Flores of Miami. Flores, the current deputy majority leader, is only 32, and she's the legislature's only Hispanic female - which itself is a comment on both the Democratic and the Republican parties in Florida. Flores, who has also been mentioned...
Living here in the same conditions as the average citizen has been a struggle to say the least—with only a few hours of functioning electricity and questionable water flowing each day. Though it is true that, like many other central African nations, Equatorial Guinea is struggling with infrastructure development, this country’s government has a wealth of oil-based profits flowing into its coffers that other such nations...
...Senator wishing to be President, Obama said the outcome didn't surprise him. An early indication that he might be electable nationwide, he said, was his strong Senate approval ratings even in Illinois' rural, white, culturally conservative regions. "If I'm in a big industrial state with 12% African-American population and people seem to not be concerned about my race and much more concerned with my performance, why would [that not hold true] across the country?" (Read "The Screwups of Campaign...