{"id":463,"date":"2004-08-03T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2004\/08\/03\/integration-without-denial\/"},"modified":"2004-08-03T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2004-08-03T20:26:09","slug":"integration-without-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2004\/08\/03\/integration-without-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Integration without Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a134'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.uk\">The Guardian<\/a> makes a solid point about France (<a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2004\/08\/03\/france\/index.html\">Salon syndication of the story<\/a>, I can&#8217;t seem to find it at the Guardian&#8217;s site): the French principle of integration through denial of cultural\/racial differences is a catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been impressed with the level of cultural and racial integration in the US. America sees variety as a strength to cultivate, where France sees it as an anomaly to rectify. Sure, the American approach to integration isn&#8217;t perfect nor accepted by all. Yet its results seem vastly superior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian makes a solid point about France (Salon syndication of the story, I can&#8217;t seem to find it at the Guardian&#8217;s site): the French principle of integration through denial of cultural\/racial differences is a catastrophe. I&#8217;ve always been impressed with the level of cultural and racial integration in the US. America sees variety as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}