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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]06 - I understand the point you're making about it being a disadvantage to speak a neighborhood language if that is not the language of the powerful.  But, speaking as a sociologist, very few sociologists would ever describe it the way that Gingrich did.

The point by itself is legitimate.  The way it was expressed by Gingrich suggested an underlying bigotry.[/quote]

True.  I meant more that the germ "ghetto" does not always have the same derogatory meaning as we apply it in popular culture.  We can talk about the Jewish ghettoes in 1930's Europe to describe a group of people isolated within a neighborhood without it being a slight to the residents.[/quote]6:51 again - Yes, that's what I took you to mean.
The question of how to relate to the dominant culture has always fascinated me. Assimilate (if allowed to)? Become a separatist? Go back and forth changing style and language depending on where you are? It's a problem that white Anglo-Americans like me don't experience as part of our daily lives  - except, of course, as a woman, I have had to make choices about whether to "talk like a man" when applying for jobs! Newt talking about it so blithely is quite aggravating.[/quote]

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