Wed, 19 Oct 1994 09:52:03 -0700 for <socgrad@ucsd.edu>
    Wed, 19 Oct 94 12:52:01 +1100
From: "LEE MARTIN" <S-LMARTIN@bss1.umd.edu>
Organization:  University of Maryland,College Park
To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU
Date:          Wed, 19 Oct 1994 12:51:41 EDT
Subject:       multiculturalism
A colleague once made a statement about multiculturalism that 
resonanted with my own not-so-well-formed impression of the current 
phenonmena.....something along the lines of
    
            "eventually, at least for a period, people come around to 
            celebrating what they're stuck with..."

I hear that racial & ethnic minority groups (in terms of population) 
are growing to such an extent in America that in 50 years or so they 
will cumulatively comprise a greater proportion than clearly anglo 
background whites.  Who knows the actual demographic projections 
(who's got the hard numbers)?

Furthermore, the statement above also seems to reflect historically 
specific conditions currently prevailing in America.

Could it be that multiculturalism as a movement/ideology (or what is 
it?) is happening now but will disappear as a fad----or change into a 
more diffuse toleration----or what?

Lee