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Originally Posted by realcoray
The issue is if you correlate race with something, you neglect to understand what may really be happening.
Blacks and Hispanics are like 3x more likely to be below the poverty line, and the graph comparing all races in regards to poverty would be very similar to the gang or crime one.
I agree that assimilation is critical but people expect it to be instant which isn't reasonable. If you had to move to Italy for your job, do you think you could completely assimilate in the same time frame you expect others? Or, is it more likely that if you have children there, they will assimilate?
The same sort of knee jerk reactions to large groups of so called foreigners has happened over and over again in American history. Those dirty drunk irish, I hate them! Those italians with their ferraris and olive oil, they refuse to learn the language! They are all destroying our America!
Detroit was destroyed by the big 3, in the same way that numerous towns who relied on a single industry have experienced the downside of said industry leaving or dying. It's just the biggest city that's all.
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You are most certainly correct, correlation does not mean causation. However, it would be just as foolish to say that certain segments of the population, as defined by race, do not have a problem within their ranks. As for assimilation, I would agree if it were not for the fact that some ethnicities display the same assimilation difficulties despite the fact that they are not, on average, first generation Americans. Instead certain ethnicities have, for one reason or another, developed a culture that is significantly different in both its outlook and its morality from that of what might be called a "mainstream" US culture. It is a shame that certain people defining themselves as so-called "leaders" of these extra-mainstream cultures, instead of working against the negative values and actions displayed therein, actually work to reinforce the negative actions and values in order to perpetuate their own power position.
"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts." -Booker T. Washington
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Bill