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...Before I had been locked into this academic track," Hobbs says. "When I got into Harvard, I had a lot of time. I smoked pot, lost my virginity and went to my first rock concert all in the same weekend...
...United States has long been touted as a melting pot, which combines the elements of different cultures and races into one uniform soup. This is the ultimate compromise, a blending that creates an e pluribus unum cultural hegemony that everyone buys into. Whether you're Black, Asian, European or Native American, the culture you identify with most is the culture of McNachos and Mickey Mouse...
Canada, still in need of a catchy analogy like "melting pot," claims to be more of a tossed salad (different elements with the same oh-so-delicate dressing), or--my favorite--a fruitcake (chunks of different goodies in the same heavy cake). This is an integrative, not assimilative, approach to racial integration. Ministries for multiculturalism, official bilingualism and a high rate of immigrant flow create an environment where different ethnic groups are free to continue their cultures without being filtered through a dominant Canadian...
...researcher Susan Ennett: "Unless there's some sort of booster session that reinforces the original curriculum, the effects of most drug-use-prevention programs decay rather than increase with time." Ray, 18, who came through the DARE program in Los Angeles, is a good case in point. He smokes pot. "Mostly everyone I know who was in DARE back with me are doing the same thing I'm doing and more," he says. "Everybody I know gets high. I don't think it worked...
...this way," says Susie Hinton, an elementary school principal. "They are a vehicle that we can use to break down an old way of doing things. It's hard to change unless you have someone come along who is an outsider, who can come in and stir up the pot. The threat alone of E.A.I. has stirred up the pot to such a degree around here you can't believe it." She adds, "The system is broken now, and we can't go back to business as usual...