Ethnic Groups oin the Country

After class on Tuesday and our discussion of how people in Brazil are categorized not by how they consider themselves, but by the tone of their skin, it made me think about when our country will get to that point. As America loses it's white majority over the next couple of decades, I am eagerly awaiting to see how many mixed race families will explode in numbers as people put their old prejudices behind and realize that our world is changing for the better with races living together in peace. A place where people will not look at a person because of one specific ethnic heritage, but can see a family with a number of different skin tones, whether they are white, black, brown or any other color, and think that they are the way of the future, mixing cultures and heritages from around the world and still coexisting as a single family unit. I think our professor and his family are doing a great thing incorporating Brazilian culture into their family to make their adopted kid know that he is of Brazilian decent and remember the old traditons of his native born country while still adopting the new customs of American culture. It's a mix of cultures like these that are going to bring people of all races together in the not too distant future.