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Across America, students are home or working on everything from archaeological digs to Congressional internships to the dishes at Pizza Hut. In diverse places, they are meeting different people and shaping the eclectic attitudes they will bring back to school in the fall. But almost anywhere they may have ended up, they can count on the uniting strand of a popular culture that is so target-marketed and spun that you could predict its essential substance without ever picking up a specific record lable or movie poster...
...second Doug, who takes over the construction job, becomes macho and tough. The third Doug is a sensitive, caring type who is worried about his inner child and obsessive about the proper way to foil-wrap meatloaf. The fourth Doug is, well, special, shaving his tongue and slurping pizza...
...come to recognize a common band of culture that I share with the other Americans in my group. It isn't as old as German culture or Russian culture; it doesn't mean Americans like the same songs or the same customs or the same food (though pizza and hamburgers are quite universal). What it does mean, at least to me, is that we shouldn't be so pessimistic about our supposedly irreconcilable differences as Americans. We appear really distinct as a whole from the people of other countries, if you look from outside the United States. Whether we accept...
...Willie Kennedy, a 72-year-old grandmother and former member of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, it was a clear-cut issue of racism: last March a Domino's Pizza and a Mr. Pizza Man refused to deliver to her grandson William Fobbs at his home in a predominantly black area near Candlestick Park. The Domino's franchise, like most Domino's Pizzas across the country, used a software system that color-codes streets according to risk; a large swath of Fobbs' neighborhood had been "red-zoned," meaning it was deemed too dangerous to serve...
...Angeles recruits, for instance, only one is an Ivy Leaguer: Brown University's Marisela Ramos, the brainy daughter of an illiterate East Los Angeles seamstress. Three of the students have worked part time in supermarkets since high school, and some, like Marcio Castro, manager of a Domino's Pizza who attends California State University/Northridge, spend as much time at work as in class...