IV and cultural assimilation

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Isn't the melting pot alive and well?  If anything, it's more so than back in the '60s.

Laura

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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

>****Bekah is ME and sez:
>ME:   Another thing,  I think Pynchon is going to some lengths to include specific elements of the racial/national diversity which is LA in one large celebration of cultural assimilation.  
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>I also think, from doc's afro thru Tariq, the Asian chicks and others, TRP definitely wanted to indicate a real mixing 'melting pot' that was lost later in America.....
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