Liberal Mixology

The book makes no apology-nor need it-for its assumptions about inherited culture and the way this can determine a people's "habits of mind." Each of the six group portraits, unstinting in what may sound to some like stereotypes, makes a persuasive case that history and tradition have given the migrants in question a distinct cultural character. Irish immigrants and blacks, Barone does not shrink from saying, have been more given to crime than many other groups: They think the rules of the larger and, in their eyes, fundamentally unfair mainstream society don't apply to them. Similarly, because of the conditions in the socially stratified societies they come from, Italian immigrants and Latino newcomers have traditionally put little store in education, and often undermined themselves by shunning individual achievement.

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