Much Of Our National Debate Proceeds As

If Half-black Barack Obama Had Decided Years Ago To Call Himself White - Which His Genes Certainly Entitled Him To Do - His Story Would Have Carried Very Different Meaning. If Millions Of Part-black People Had Followed Him Into Whiteness, Then The N.a.a.c.p. Would Be In True Crisis.

In The End, A New Americanization Movement Can't Just Be About Listing Our Privileges And Immunities, Which We Catalog In Our Laws. It Also Has To Be About Reinforcing Our Duties, Which We Convey In Our Habits.

Great Numbers Of Asian Americans Do Not Fit The Model Minority Or 'tiger Family' Stereotypes, Living Instead In Multigenerational Poverty Far From The Mainstream.

Here's A Proposal, Offered Only Partly In Jest: No Resident Of The United States, Whether Born Here Or Abroad, Should Get To Be A Citizen Until Age 18, At Which Time Each Such Resident Has To Take A Test.

Like The 'little Emperors' Of One-child China, Too Many Boomers Were Taught Early That The World Was Made (or Saved) For Their Comfort And Enjoyment. They Behaved Accordingly, With A Self-indulgence That Was Wholly Rational, Given Their Situation.