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ms process ol sell-discovery led to formation of one of those central beliefs that govern our lives (if we bother to have any such beliefs). It is the belief in the value of roots and a sense of ethnic identity. It turned my parents’ belief on its head: Rejecting melting-pot homogenization, I chose to recognize and celebrate what was bred in bone and blood and to value the differences that I discovered among my fellow Americans. What made the Italians and the Poles and the Scandinavians and the blacks different from me also made them more interesting, and — once you understand your own

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