The Ethnic Cultures of America

No other country can come close to claiming the diversity with which the United States interacts with the world. In a sense Americans are so diverse that we look like the world or to put it another way the world is coming to look like us.</p>Americans are not perfect. We're not even as good as we can get-yet. At the start of the twenty-first century we had some racial and ethnic problems we still had to solve. We won't learn to solve these issues unless-as we have before-we take the time to learn about each other. But we have come a long way in the more than 230 years since Thomas Jefferson penned the immortal words of this nation's most precious document. <I>The Ethnic Cultures of America</I> will help us do this.</p>Remember besides sharing in this nation's triumphs Americans have endured many difficulties wars depressions recessions and tragedies. Yet enduring doesn't mean agreeing all the time; we have certainly had our share of disagreements. But isn't that part of what the United States is all about? The right to disagree? And more importantly to be ourselves.</p>