The pot is really melting: how interracial families are changing the face of America
When I first came to the U.S. as a "cultural ambassador", my first class was Introduction to American Life. It taught me that "How are you?" actually means "hi" and that people asking may have no interest in hearing how I'm doing (a topic for a future post). I also learned that America was a "melting pot" in which people from different ethnicities, countries, and religions came together. This utopia sounded so beautiful, I struggled to understand why then the African American students at the dorm and the college cafeteria hung out by themselves, as did most everyone from their…
