It is still important to not that it is the WASPs who remain in control of corporate offices, board rooms, banks, and foundations. Goals of Society It appears relatively easy to achieve a consensus on goals regarding race relations. It is difficult to argue against notions that everybody is human and that all individuals should be treated as human beings, that all Americans should have an equal chance regardless of race, creed, religion, or color. These reflect the lack of consensus and the difficulty in establishing any kind of rational program with much support. This multiplicity of goals has led to a concentration on the means and processes of human relations, to programs such as human relations workshops, group encounters, therapy, and the like, which are geared to treating people as individuals, observing and dealing with racial sensitivities and stereotypes, and feeling good about individual and racial differences.
Current issues are different from when the goal of forming a melting pot was reasonably clear.
Basic strategies in this era included Americanization and discarding the immigrant culture. The problems of prejudice, discrimination, and segregation were not directly addressed. Dominant groups forced some nonwhites to join them as slaves and invited others to work as cheap labor. For these people of color, the means of becoming like the dominant group were denied. Their major lens appears to be on an individualistic level.