> This is a question of which came first the chicken or the egg? Oh, I absolutely believe that the uneven distribution of certain races in those poverty cultur

> This is a question of which came first the chicken or the egg? Oh, I absolutely believe that the uneven distribution of certain races in those poverty cultures is due to historic racism. I'd have to be deluded to not believe that. When an entire race was suppressed just a couple generations ago, it makes absolute sense that that race would continue having an issue with poverty. However, I don't think race is the issue anymore. I think the issues are culture and poverty, with poverty being the much more significant of the two. Proof of this IMO is in the white trash culture. White people born and raised in poverty in a culture of hopelessness tend to have terrible college graduation rates, low average income, and high crime rates. There's no systemic racism keeping them down, yet they don't succeed. > Is the fact that cultures are represented unevenly in society the fault of the non-dominant cultures or the dominant culture? Jewish and Asian cultures are non-dominant, yet they succeed in our country. Dominance isn't the issue here, I don't think. > Personally, I love multiculturalism... Dealing with people from other cultures is a lot more fun than dealing with people like me. That's great! I don't have an issue that some places and people think like that. I just don't see why that kind of mentality needs to be brought to places that think differently. There are always acceptable limits of variance within a culture. Some cultures disallow women from showing their hair, others stone gay people. Neither of those aspects of a culture would be allowed here. Why shouldn't different regions of the country have different bounds for allowed cultural variance?