When you think about Tom Brokaw comment about assimilation? He didn't address the assimilation they need to face. In your secluded community, many yet to face the truth of a changing world.
In other words, yet to catch up. Most one race segment was created by those not assimilating.
Little Italy, little Cuba, many black communities came about because of one group. And here a fame reporter talking about others need to assimilate into society.
Who created Jim Crow? Who segregated Asian American during the second war. What group tried to eliminate a mass Jewish population?
Presently, still using fear tactics about others because they know this group fears others.