Ethnic Identity.

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     In the late 80’s and early 90’s there was a rise in Afrocentric awareness and pride. We believe this was due to the black Americans attempting to trace and reconnect their roots and gain some cultural connection with their heritage. The immigration act of 1965 opened up immigration to Asian countries, Eastern and Southern Europeans. The people who immigrated following this act, now will be  2nd and 3rd generation immigrants. These people who have largely grown up in America, raised on American culture, American food, American sports, American entitlement(s) are now coming of age and finding themselves more American than *fictional division*-American. When they enter into spaces they enter as Americans, but everything society tells them, everything the media tells them, every form they fill out has to whittle them down to that *fictional division*. So now they are trying to reclaim that *fictional division*, reclaim that heritage, form some type of bond with that culture and homeland before they forget it all together.