The Future

One of the things that I am doing this session as part of my afterschool program is assisting a woman with her Girl Scout troop. This is purely for background. It was just that I had a thought at the celebration they had last Wednesday to welcome in the new girls to the troop.

While disappointing in the number, one set of parents showed up. I think I spent the rest of the time trying to figure out whose parents they were.

I think that it was just extra intriguing (because I think I would have done this guessing if any other parents had shown up) because the father was Hispanic and the mother was Caucasian. It feels a little bad that I was extra intrigued by this, but at least I admit I was. I was curious of who had the mixed family.

(Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against mixed families. I have a niece and a nephew that are bi-racial kids and I think that they are very adorable.)

The thing that I started wondering about was what were the long term possibilities. I just wondered what positive (or negative) effects that it might have on our ethnic tensions...Would anything change? Would we become more fractioned? Might skin color start to matter less because we would have become more of the melting pot that America had been thought of? (Even though there has been some questioning of the benefit of the so-called melting pot because it results in the loss of a sense of culture and familial history, I think that this is one way in which it might be good...And then we just have to make the effort to pass on the traditions in our own way. Or something.)

It's that last one that I want to hope for.