owly or broadly it conceives relevant groups, does not address the fragmentation of society into competing interests but rather the underlying variability of culture and identity in modern society, and the influence of these on the practices of democratic politics. The new pluralism raises questions about the impact of such groups on civic identity and civic rights (Meyer, 1998, p. 57).
The problem is rooted in the age-old American problem of racism. Every ethnic group that has migrated to America has found itself denigrated by those already here, and forced to organize itself on group lines by ethnic identification, entering politics to find a way in which to obtain the rights for the group that each as an individual is supposed to have under the Cons
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