LA is a city of Hispanics and Asians, with significant white and black minorities. It is hard to argue that, too. That same week, London's Metropolitan Police, which already allows Sikhs to wear turbans on duty, announced that women officers would now be allowed to wear hijabs, traditional Muslim head scarves, as they patrolled the city. Still under consideration are dreadlocks, so that Rastafarians could become officers. All that is part of a program to increase the number of Asians and blacks in the police force from the present 4 percent to 25 percent in the next eight years.
Most people living in Britain today are either immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.
The Weekly Standard writer offered a breezy definition of a new American establishment of boomers more concerned with buying power and their own culture than with politics and such. So the more things change, the more Europe becomes like America. Talking with Europeans for a week or so, I found myself in the middle of debates about the morality of capitalism. Or, rather, the morality of American capitalism. The story that has focused attention on such things is appropriately multinational, involving the French operations of a British corporation run by a Belgian.