✍ Scribed by Gina Philogène
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The American experience teaches us that integration is not just mere proximity\ but an active process based on joint participation and mutual acceptance[ It is only in the creation of a common superordinate structure shared with the majority that minority groups can aspire to be associated with the dominant culture[ Ironically\ America has become most successful in allowing various immigrant groups to become part of its mainstream by abandoning the idea of blind assimilation[ This paper analyzes the integration of voluntary immigrants who\ while maintaining their cultural distinctiveness\ have come to share the {American dream|[ It is however in their social representations of Blacks\ de_ned negatively as the {{other|| that they have reduced their social distance to the dominant Anglo!culture and facilitated their inclusion[ By reconstructing their own cultural distinctiveness\ like other groups\ in juxtapositin to America\ some Blacks have transformed themselves into African Americans to achieve the same level of integration[ Copyright Þ 1999 John Wiley + Sons\ Ltd
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