These legal privileges were supposed to be temporary and, therefore, no lasting threat to equality in law. Getting rid of these temporary privileges is proving to be a massive struggle that may be lost. Many American elites support differential group rights as a way of achieving equality of result. The combination of civil rights and immigration policies has created a situation in which millions of immigrants, none of whom are victims of alleged past discrimination in the U.S., find themselves privileged over native-born white Americans. A caste society is gradually emerging in which white Americans are second-class citizens .
Education has two primary functions literacy and enculturation.
A country whose civil rights and immigration policies have produced a nation of adversaries with differential group rights and no common culture, and whose foreign policy is eliminating its ability to project power, will not continue to be a major player on the world scene.