““The theory is that immersion in the history of one's own group will overcome feelings of racial inferiority both by instilling pride in past ethnic accomplishments and by providing ethnic role models to inspire future performance. Telling black children how marvelous old Africa was will make them work harder and do better. But does study of the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome improve the academic record of Greek-American and Italian-American children? Not so that anyone has noticed. Why is it likely to help black children, who are removed from their geographical origins not by 50 years but by 300?””
![“[P]ressed too far, the cult of ethnicity has had bad consequences too. The new ethnic gospel rejects the unifying vision of individuals from all nations melted into a new race. Its underlying philosophy is that America is not a nation of individuals at all but a nation of groups, that ethnicity is…” quote by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd0/arthur-m-schlesinger-jr-2-2017_american-history_p-ressed-too-far-the-cult-of-ethnicity-h_881791.jpg)
![“[I]s there not something basically hostile to the actor's art in the consanguinity principle? After all, what is acting but an exercise in dissimulation? The challenge to actors is to create characters on the stage; and these characters may be very different from what the actors are in real life…” quote by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b7b/arthur-m-schlesinger-jr-2-2017_art_i-s-there-not-something-basically-hostil_1210985.jpg)
