Garcia recognizes that it isn't always going to be a smooth transition. Indeed, his section on the study of "implicit" bias and his discussion of "how soon" the shifting of mainstreams will occur both acknowledge problems. Nonetheless, his contention is that the transformation is both inevitable and essential. Just as earlier waves of immigrants both adapted to and also reshaped the "new world" they entered, this "new mainstream" is finding ways to express themselves and exert themselves within the context of the overall culture. In that regard, The New Mainstream is a fascinating manifesto of the multicultural transformation.
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