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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
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This is an important point, but actually broader and deeper than the fact that most Americans will "look" white for a long time to come 1/ vox.com/policy-and-pol…
The fact is that who is considered "other" evolves over time, usually in American history toward more inclusiveness. Italian immigrants were literally considered subhuman, as you can see from this 1891 editorial in ... the New York Times 2/ pri.org/stories/2015-1…
Now, some descendants of those same immigrants are among those taking violently anti-immigrant positions in the name of national purity. 3/
On the other hand, some groups are always at risk of being "otherized" no matter how much they look. As the old line goes, if you're Jewish and happen to forget it, someone WILL remind you; the same goes for Asian-Americans 4/
The point is that race is a social and political construct. Will America still be America a generation from now? Politics, not immigration and birth rates, will determine the answer 5/
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