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...Congo when she was 12, after her father claimed political asylum. Now, 26 years later, she's Sweden's Minister for Integration and Gender Equality. But in a country where 16% of the population are immigrants or the children of immigrants, Sabuni is the only member of an ethnic minority in the ruling coalition. And Sweden isn't the only country where, compared to their diverse populations, leaders look pale. "People often have very low expectations of immigrants," says Sabuni. "So, in order to achieve a good position, you have to be better than the others. It's a balance...
...Another way to make sure every citizen counts? Count them. Literally. Yet some countries don't collect ethnic data in their census and those that do are often behind the curve. Britain introduced a mixed-race category to its census in 2001, only to discover that it was already the country's fastest-growing ethnic minority group. It's illegal to collect data on ethnicity or religion in France, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Spain, mainly on the grounds that identifying people by their race or faith is, in itself, a form of discrimination. But a move to make all people...
...technically retired, now that his son runs the family hair salon. But he's still busy working for the community. As chair of the local traders' association, he calms any frictions between businesses and residents. In his spare time, he works with local police to defuse clashes between ethnic gangs. Plus he's a governor at a nearby college, where he helps promote integration. And he does it all for free. "The things I do, I do not get a penny for them," he says. "If I do something for my street, my community, I do it from my heart...
Green Lanes is in London's Haringey borough, which has a population of 224,300, almost half of them ethnic minorities. The borough includes South Tottenham, an area researchers at University College London recently proclaimed the most ethnically diverse in Britain - and possibly all of Western Europe - with 113 ethnic groups living in it. Integrating Haringey's residents, who together speak around 193 languages, is too complex for big government to handle from above. Here, getting along is up to the people themselves...
...self-indulgent. It may reflect poor priorities. But it is also essentially American. The U.S. is the country of self-invention, of new names, new faces and new starts--the land of plasticity. To be American is to refuse to be limited by the circumstances of your birth--ethnic, economic or genetic...