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Kurt [OP]

2003-07-20 17:51 | User Profile

[SIZE=2]Generation M kicks off an American racial revolution[/SIZE] The Sunday Times (U.K.) 07/20/03 Author: John Harlow Link: [url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-750644,00.html]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20...-750644,00.html[/url]

THE larder is crammed with tacos and Vietnamese fish sauce, the cutlery drawer overflows with chopsticks and ornate Mexican spoons and the video shelf is stuffed with Latin American and Asian hits. This is the home of Victor and Rachel Garza, harbingers of a new breed of Americans known as Generation M.

Victor’s father is a Mexican-American political activist and Rachel’s parents were Vietnamese and European. Today they live in San Jose, a small, prosperous city in California’s computer-driven Silicon Valley.

San Jose is about to find itself at the leading edge of another social revolution. Middle-class families such as the Garzas are turning it into the first American city to be dominated by “Gen M”, people who regard themselves as “multiracials” rather than the “monoracials” of previous generations.

One in five children born in San Jose is of mixed race, according to a new report. By 2030 up to 10% of Americans are expected to describe themselves on census forms as multiracial.

The old ghettos and enclaves will still exist in big cities such as Los Angeles, but the study — entitled Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? — predicts that young Gen M-ers will be concentrated in trendsetting communities such as San Jose, neighbouring Sacramento and San Antonio in Texas, from where their influence will spread across the country.

Donna Jackson Nakazawa, the author of the study, argues that Gen M was inevitable after segregation was swept away in the 1960s.

“People of different races worked together for the first time, where proximity breeds desire,” she said.

“We marry who we know, and as a result we are now seeing the first overtly multiracial generation in American history. Instead of hiding it away, they want the right not to have to choose a race. It will become a non-issue.”

Eliminating racism could be an uphill struggle. Halle Berry, acclaimed as the first black American woman to win an Oscar for best actress and whose mother is a white nurse from Liverpool, remembers being called “zebra” and “half-breed” during her childhood in Ohio. “It forced me to hide behind a black skin, which was never the full story,” she said.

Many celebrities, such as Vin Diesel, the action film star, and Tiger Woods, the golfer, refuse to call themselves anything but multiracial.

The 2000 census was the first in which Americans could tick more than one of five boxes recording ethnic origin. Some 128 racial permutations are now available, said Matt Kelley, founder of the Mavin Foundation, which researches racial trends.

“Once people see there is no economic penalty or shame in declaring they are multiracial, change will spread to regions such as the Deep South, where white and black communities have been in denial for ever about their intermingled inheritance,” predicted Kelley, himself a Korean-Caucasian.

Art Harrison, a Canadian entrepreneur who set up the website club mixedrace.com two months ago, said his typical member was a college- educated twentysomething.

“Race in North America is more than blood or physical features; it’s about money and attitude,” he said.

“Now there are so many people outing themselves the old rules cannot hold. It may take 50 years but Gen M, the millennial, multicultural generation, will change all that.”

© 2003 Times Newspapers Ltd.

N.B. Forrest

2003-07-20 18:04 | User Profile

**Donna Jackson Nakazawa, the author of the study, argues that Gen M was inevitable after segregation was swept away in the 1960s.

“People of different races worked together for the first time, where proximity breeds desire,” she said.**

Just a Shmuel planned it.

“We marry who we know, and as a result we are now seeing the first overtly multiracial generation in American history. Instead of hiding it away, they want the right not to have to choose a race. It will become a non-issue.”

Don't bet on it, rice burner.

“Once people see there is no economic penalty or shame in declaring they are multiracial, change will spread to regions such as the Deep South, where white and black communities have been in denial for ever about their intermingled inheritance,” predicted Kelley, himself a Korean-Caucasian.**

Funk you, han guk. What we "deny" is that our grandchildren are going to be half-breed scum like you.

:angry:

madrussian

2003-07-21 02:51 | User Profile

** Today they live in San Jose, a small, prosperous city in California’s computer-driven Silicon Valley. **

Err, actually San Jose isn't that small, and it's far from being a model city due to its pockets of Hispanic population. And sorry, the adjective "prosperous" is no longer in fashion after the dot-com crash. The most livable and family-friendly places to live in the Bay Area are those with the highest concentration of whites. As simple as that.

Robbie

2003-07-21 03:41 | User Profile

I work in a department store where I see the fruits of multiracialism in front of my own eyes. It is enough to make me wonder if I am the only person, let alone the only White, who believes that people should stick with their own kind when it comes to marriage and/or relationships. Multiracialism does nothing but destroy culture, and has it ever dawned on anyone that it's always the white culture that is the guinea pig??