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Even in Africa's Sudan, among the Dinka tribesmen, basketball was known as a logical career for a 91-in. man. Of confused age, though thought to be 23, Bol had a traumatic introduction to the game six years ago. Goaded by a cousin to attempt a dunk, he broke several teeth on the rim. In the spirit of his 7-ft. 10-in. grandfather, a chieftain with some 80 children, though against the wishes of his 6-ft. 8-in. father, a cattleman who died lonely for his only son, Bol inevitably made his way to a local team...
...reservations have often been visited by despair and violence. The Native American suicide rate is far above the national average, but even that depressing fact could not account for the events of the past two months at the Wind River Reservation (pop. 6,000) in Wyoming, where nine young tribesmen have taken their lives. That rate is some 24 times the average for Indian men ages 15 to 24, and 60 times the national figure. Last week tribal elders returned to a long-abandoned tradition in the hope of saving their children. TIME Correspondent Dan Goodgame reports from Wind River...
...Hmong, rural Laotian tribesmen who migrated to Powelton Village in West Philadelphia in 1981, the City of Brotherly Love proved anything but. They came with little knowledge of American life, only to be confronted by crime, unemployment and blacks who called them gooks. The Hmong, though, had been taught one thing about America: do not trust black people. When the teacher of an elementary school English class attempted to explain the meaning of the word hate, the class of young Laotians responded that they knew what they hated: blacks. The mutual ignorance spurred violence. Some of the Hmong were threatened...
...many strangers, hurling all those contradictory genes and customs and temperaments into the same room. It goes against human nature. Strangers are not supposed to set up civilizations together. A nation must arise out of a tribe, out of affinities of blood. At one time, if some Pacific island tribesmen encountered a man they had not seen before, they simply killed -- and sometimes ate -- him. Tribal policy. But the U.S., with its great polyglot ingathering, went brilliantly to the other extreme...
...long, how complete and how painful the process of Americanization will be remains unclear. It is true that ethnic elitists have bewailed each succeeding wave of Irish or Germans or Greeks, but it is also true that the disparities among Korean merchants, Soviet Jews, Hmong tribesmen, French socialites and Haitian boat people are greater than any the U.S. or any other country has ever confronted. On the other hand, Americans are probably more tolerant of diversity than they once were. "America is much more of a pluralistic society now," says Peter Rose, professor of sociology at Smith College...