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African American Christmas Ornament ... A lot of the time, a so-called African American Christmas Ornament is actually an African Christmas ornament repackaged to appeal to people who are trying to recapture a sense of their black heritage... For example, many times people will sell a silly little wooden sculpture of some safari animal as an African American Christmas Ornament just because that animal comes from Africa... Even more insulting, sometimes I have seen silly stylized African masks and figurines sold as an African American Christmas Ornament...

American Toys For Every Girl And Boy ... With American toys of this kind, it is all the better because the toys will stand up to the rough use of little hands....

Cooperstown Museum Highlights Native American And Folk Art ... The Fenimore Art Museum is that rare art museum where one can see diverse collections of American art in rich and eclectic exhibitions... Comprising nearly 850 art objects, the Native American art collection is widely recognized as one of the nation's premier collections of American Indian art... Representing a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, including Northwest Coast, Woodlands, Prairie, Plateau, Plains, Southwest, California, The Great Basin, Arctic and Subarctic, The New York Times described it as "a collection any museum in the world should envy."...

Native American Doll ... My sister started her daughter on an international doll collection. This was more unusual than the porcelain doll collections...

Play Games - An American Pastime ... The traditions now replaced by the gamer creating cool names and a cool picture that represents who they are. Everybody has their own traditions when it comes to playing games but since you are playing alone it is your tradition not shared by everyone...



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The rising power of the United States in world affairs ... requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism.... Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which american policy must operate.
—James Reston (b. 1909)

They were two strong men, these oddly different generals, and they represented the strengths of two conflicting currents that, through them, had come into final collision. Back of Robert E. Lee was the notion that the old aristocratic concept might somehow survive and be dominant in american life. Lee was tidewater Virginia, and in his background were family, culture, and tradition.... Grant, the son of a tanner on the Western frontier, was everything Lee was not. He had come up the hard way and embodied nothing in particular except the eternal toughness and sinewy fiber of the men who grew up beyond the mountains. He was one of a body of men who owed reverence and obeisance to no one, who were self-reliant to a fault, who cared hardly anything for the past but who had a sharp eye for the future.
—Bruce Catton (1899–1978)

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro american, it is not practically as far- reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother’s Day and Best american Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)



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