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Article: Placing groups over individuals.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2002
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Byline: James Young, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The United States is in danger of becoming a nation of "hyphenated-Americans" pigeonholed by a multiple-choice test of social distinctions. The categories against which an individual is today compared is an ever-expanding list in an unending attempt to classify us. Race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, language, education, class and income are just the most obvious. While the ostensible aim is to somehow increase Americans' individuality, the result is an elevation of groups and individuals' subordination to them.
This threatened reversal of group over individual perfectly ...