2010年interview(2/6)

Yes, you may say so. Um, of course, when the phrase “melting pot” was poplar, there was also the

idea of being different, but being different then simply meant Catholic as opposed to Protestant, or Irish as opposed to Swedish or Italian. Has the idea of being different change over the years? Yes, of course. You see today, we use the world diversity to refer to more visible ethnic differences Asian American, African American, and Latino, for instance. And religious diversity refers to a variety of world religions, not merely different branches of Christianity. And now is America as a whole truly diverse? Well, I think in all this talk of diversity there is a critical point that may be missed: that is, diversity is not occurring everywhere in the US, or at least not to a degree that would alter the demography of every region in the country.