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...many sociologists today say that the goal of American society should be to achieve, not a melting pot, but a "salad bowl," in which each individual component retains its own shape and identity, but contributes to the total flavor of the composite...
...danger, though, is that society may turn out to be more like a "salad bar," in which each ingredient is separated by nearly impenetrable barriers and an out-of-place vegetable sticks out like a sore thumb--or a white student at an Asian American Association meeting...
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Lunchtime in Beverly Hills. A bold, bright, high-ceilinged room with sun streaming through the skylights and a mighty bamboo tree thrusting toward the roof. The regulars, mostly show-biz honchos, pour into Chaya Brasserie to talk their way through low-cal power meals. The plates, sprouting salad greens, look conventional at first, but in fact, the fare is novel: a combination of the vaunted California cuisine (roughage) and subtler accents from Asia -- tuna and salmon tartare, lemongrass, ginger. Called Cal-Asian cuisine or Pacific Rim cookery, it is the latest gourmet buzz...
...only way Gapified culture can succeed is if it is mass culture, if it can make anybody special. We buy it first, thinking it makes us special, then we notice that everyone else is wearing jeans, T-shirts and blazers, and is eating the szechuan noodle salad. At the same time, those people who aren't Gapified are left to rot; not important, not "individuals of style...