I think eventually, things will just drift together. We do have many cultural differences from others that make us ethnic peope, but the world gets smaller and smaller each day via technology.
A day will come will cultural barriers may just blend together and it will be hard to tell apart. America is a collection of all cultures and Americans participate in all aspects of different cultures...food, music, dress, etc. Some catches on, some doesnt', but the more we connect cultures together, the more they will evolve together.
It will take along time, but when the world is united, cultural barriers may start to fall.
I agree in general.
There are so many different types of separation among people - religion, race, ethnicity, gender, income level, intelligence, personality, etc.
It is human nature to want to associate with people of similar values and interests. It is how we define these values and interests that determines the lines along which we separate ourselves, and who we associate with.
People may show curiosity about other cultures, but in the end, most people want their day-to-day associations to be with people they deem to be reasonably similar.
That is why a racially-based approach to ending segregation of that type will never work. It enshrines race as the primary difference among people, and thereby reinforces racial separation, while at the same time demanding that people deny the basic human preference to associate with similar people. If you remove race from the equation, people may discover that they have more similarities than differences, and race will not become the primary separator.
The way to achieve racial integration is to narrow the divide in values and attitudes among the races. This will allow a more organic type of integration to take place, as it has among other ethnic groups that formerly existed in separation, and now live side-by-side. But under the current policies of making race THE issue, we are doing just the opposite, and deepening racial separation.
School integration to achieve this is a 1960s idea that failed, and is as dead as a doornail. There is no way to bring about effective integration in schools when white people fled the cities as a result of the last school integration attempt. Forced integration actually deepened racial separation and provided no corresponding benefit. In any city that had forced integration, whites fled and the schools became worse than ever, and all the while, anti-black sentiment flared dangerously.
Integration generally does not take place across class lines, or in the lowest classes. It takes place among educated people of similar class position. That was the tragic error of forced integration in the 1960s and 1970s. It attempted to mix poor blacks mostly with poor whites, and the result was explosive. Meanwhile, middle and upper class whites declined to participate, and moved outside the range of integration. And yet, of the few integrated school districts that I know, it generally involves large numbers of middle class rather than poor blacks, with middle class whites. This is a formula that can work. Poor blacks cannot really be integrated with anybody until they are first elevated socially and economically. Even middle class blacks are starting to seek separation from poor blacks.
