I'm sure if they had to move to Russia or Ireland tomorrow they would have some issues..just because you drink Guiness, have an Uncle who can play the pipes, cheer on the Green Isle in the World cup, and can sing Ole Danny Boy in a local Pub doesn't mean you are steeped in Irish Culture- if that's the case then I might be Irish. The same rings true for other identities.

American= Mutt. An ecletic mix of msny cultures with a Eurocentric cosmopolitian glaze. This is reflected in our music and our dialect of English.




" If we can't learn to live together despite the turmoil of past generations we are doomed." -Stern

"And where today is the stable community that would sustain such a couple, where one can be both poor and diginified and raise one's children with decency and hope... If the answer is education, does our society adequateley provide that tool of self-improvement to the less well off?"-- Sidney Poitier

" I'm not mad 'cus I'm losing! I'm mad 'cus I don't know how to win!" --Kevin Curtis Daniels Jr.

"And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,-all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,-who is good? Not that men are ignorant, -what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."
W.E.B. Dubois