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Originally Posted by MNBoxster
Only when we find the common ground of being Americans will these differences fade to insignificance...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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Scary thought for me, why should I have to find a common ground? common ground is assimilation. Hitler was looking for common ground too, he really was. I guess the debate and its a big one is who defines common ground?
I mean the original white Americans didn't assimilate to come to this country, we just pretty much ran the people here out...Thanksgiving sound familiar. Got to love Carlos Mencia.
So that's the catch there, who makes the rules?? I was born here, but I'm not ready to let the little culture I do have left fade to insignificance....besides if we join the common ground then what? Can women play at Augusta? Did they ever clear up allowing African-Americans into Augusta? Lesbians can't get in last I heard? Will they still hide behind private club status? I mean will the common ground solve all this? Many view the assimilation argument as avoidance...
"Political Correctness and Civil Rights legislation cannot legislate one's mind, only one's actions."
True, which is why I appreciated Randall's post, I am as guilty as the next guy of stereotyping and profiling and it is something we all fall victim to whether we are aware or unaware of it, but when I see it or am guilty of it, the only way to correct an action/behavior is to identify it.