[Riverman94610]

You make an excellent point,durasell.
In the Fifties,it would have been unthinkable to see a black person walking through my hometown.An Asian would have gotten a lot of curious stares.A Mexican would have been assumed to be a gardner or handyman,not a resident.
Things have defintely changed for the better in this country.
Riverman,who remembers the Bad Old Days.

[durasell]

I was thinking more of Europe or even 19th century America. I remember a history teacher complaining to me in frustration that his third grade class refused to believe there was discrimination against the Irish immigrants or that there were two "separate but equal" water fountains, etc. for blacks and whites. Finally, he had to show them pictures. Oddly, they believed the pictures.

[Marysecretary]

You could NEVER marry a black person or you'd be 'kicked out of town' nor could a protestant marry a Catholic or vice versa. You could count the number of blacks and asians who lived in my hometown on one finger.