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How should a society acknowledge the history of minority communities within its borders, particularly minorities that have suffered at the hands of the majority? The issue has been in the news recently, as the new Australian prime minister has made a high priority of the word 'sorry', in relation to his country's maltreatment of Aboriginal children. Meanwhile Washington is preparing to build a national museum devoted to black history, and as London develops plans for the celebration of human diversity that is promised for the 2012 Olympics year, many people across Britain have been assessing the impact of last year's commemoration of the bicentenary ...