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Separation or Assimilation?


Our country, The United States of America, was essentially founded on
the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through solidarity
of human kind. In Bernard R. Boxill's article, "Separation or Assimilation," he
fundamentally poses the Hamletesque question: to assimilate or not to assimilate.
Subsequent to the dilemma of some black cultural nationalists, whom not only
argue for assimilation of the black American populace, but also believe that
this assimilation into white culture is inevitable, against cultural pluralism.
Cultural pluralism, which was initialized by W. E.B. Dubois in the late 19th
century, is founded upon the peculiarities of races, living harmoniously in one
nation-state, and lacking superiority or inferiority. Consequently to posing
this question one dictates that there exist certain boundaries between cultures
in our American society. Where do these boundaries come from and are they
indeed necessary? Is......

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