Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they forget that every "white" person descends from an "ethnic" person. And as a recent study on European immigrants by Leonard Dinnerstein and David Reimers shows, many white immigrants faced a level of scorn that exceeds the discrimination Asians and Latinos face today...
...best example is the Jews, who have historically suffered the most discrimination of any European group, yet are now by far the best-off ethnic group economically. Jewish households earn an average income that is 155 percent of the U.S. average. And at Ivy League schools, the gateways to success, Jewish students are overrepresented by a factor...
There is little reason to suppose that the newest wave of Asian and Latino immigrants will not be able to repeat the success of their European forebears. The average Asian-American household income is now 127 percent of the U.S. average...
...slavery, is sustained by continuing socio-economic disadvantage and de facto segregation. Other ethnic identities, by contrast, are inevitably diluted as members of these groups move into suburbs, rise up the socio-economic ladder, attend college, and intermarry. This is what happened to the ethnic identities of descendants of European immigrants...
...Japan "scathing." He elaborates: "They see us as in disarray. As not leading. As having a weak foreign policy team. We're unreliable. We make strong statements of principle about what we'll do, and then we back down. They don't think we have much credibility." A senior European diplomat who has served in Washington grumbles that Clinton "reminds me of Jimmy Carter," who lost his and America's credibility 15-odd years...