Dear Kenneth,There's no place in my book that I say you don't exist at all. If you read my discussion of David Potter's work, what I'm getitng at is that despite many ethnic groups in the US, there seems to be one overall value system; and that dissent from that value system seems to be minuscule. So yes, one can find pockets of this and that, but voting patterns do tend to indicate a great uniformity (and conformity) in the US--a great homogeneity of outlook. (So do recent surveys of the goals of college freshman, for example, regardless of color or ethnic background: something like 80% say their goal in life, and in coming to college, is to become rich.) In that sense, American multiculturalism is a myth. Not, of course, if you want to focus on identity politics; but as a very few astute sociologists have indicated, this is a red herring, covering up the reality of a society that revolves around commercialism and competition. Anyway, I doubt we are going to be able to change each other's minds, but thanks again for writing.-mb