Reading: "The Global Me"

G. Pascal Zachary, "The Global Me", PublicAffairs, New York, 2000
"And there are many pieces indeed: as many as 5,000 ethnic groups and 600 living languages."(p.ix)
"As many as 30 percent of all Hispanics and Asians marry out side their ethnic group, and in the nation's most polyglot cities interethnicmarriage is the norm."(p.x)
"This sort of mixing is winning wide acceptance in the United States, but even its fans lack a vocabulary to describe, defend or even celebrate it."(p.x)
"That's because there is no common set of values, practices and perspectives for all of humanity, or even big swatches of it."(p.xv)
"Instead, we have the global me: local people who are neither limited to their particularities nor doomed to an empty we-are-the-world universalism."(p.xv)
"Hybridity flourishes in an environment of social cohesion. But this cohesion arises not from an absence of conflict, but from the capacity to learn and grow through peaceful conflict." "conflict-free society is impossible"(p.xvii)
"Nations that learn how to resolve conflicts between majorities and minorities, natives and newcomers, will increase their chances to create wealth and happiness for all. ... Their various responses to the challenge of diversity suggest that only by supporting hybrid forms of individual and group identity can societies manage the inherent conflict between diversity and harmony."(p.xviii)
"strong ethnoracial affiliations and an openness to new ties"(p.xx)
"human creativity fired by radical mixing"(p.xxi)