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Hacker substantiates his claims by noting a number of features about American culture and the sociopsychological experiences of white and black Americans. These features can be summarized as follows:

(1) Skin color is ever a component of black people's identity although it is not of whites; for example, the black writer is seldom referred to by others or in the media as merely "an author;" rather, he or she is a "black author."

(2) While most Americans wish to know about and identify with their cultural heritage, the homeland of blacks, Africa, is often devalued by the nation as at a standstill without much expectation of future development and progress.

(3) Most white Americans do not seek out the company of blacks, nor do they desire to do so.

(4) There is a societal tendency to prefer blacks in certain occupations rather than others, e.g. performers or sports figures rather than psychologists, doctors, lawyers, etc.

(5) Black people remain less likely than whites to earn a high income and live in good, safe communities.

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they originally had is no longer nor ever will be as "pure" as it once was no matter what she does in an effort at reconciliation. Other family and cultural values can be seen in the story. There is the preference for male children and the failure to lavish much attention on female children as well as to expect anywhere near as much from female children as one expects from males. Also, reflective of color issues in the Dominican Republic, there is the preference for children who are light skinned and blond which the father sees as evidence that a child has "good blood." In addition, there is an element of machismo so often seen in Hispanic cultures which is reflected in the grandfather's talk to the infant male child. Repeatedly, the father tells this little child about how he can grow up to be President of the United States, and do this and that. Also, the culture of the Dominican Republic, its values, and its traditional family structure can be seen in the father's response to his daughter when he found out that she was having sex prior to marriage. His perspective of his daughter's behavior was primarily derived from two sources: (1) the traditional Catholic view of pre-marital sex as "sin" and the notion of the girl
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