AHC: bracket "the 1970s" in the U.S.A. in four to eight years politically.

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PS I cannot play the episode of All in the Family because youtube helpfully blocks the content at Sony's request.

That's odd. It plays on the internet cafe computers here in Korea.

Anyway, the plot is, Archie is offered a substantial amount for his house by a black realtor who, it is soon discovered, wants to sell it to a black family, in order to panic whites in the neighbourhood into selling THEIR houses at lower rates, so he can then sell their depreciated houses to blacks, who will think they're buying valuable property in a mostly-white neighbourhood. Mike and Gloria, of course, are aghast at the scheme, but Archie is just fine with it.
 
Hey, I think it's interesting and neat that you live in Korea. I live in the United States. :)

I think if youtube receives a complaint, they take it down. That's basically the extent of it, although there's some complicated appeals process. Maybe sometime our group here can have a wide-ranging discussion about copyrights, fair use, microtransactions, how us human beings really act including the messy process of creating something, etc.

PS I see this episode of All in the Family is called "The Blockbuster"and first aired on Nov. 13, 1971.
 
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. . . into selling THEIR houses at lower rates, . . .
A mathematician said that if people have a modest preference for their own ethnic group, using random numbers most times it shakes out so that most neighborhoods are of a single ethnic group.

And he used 3 out of 8 of my most immediate neighbors. So, the two neighbors to each side, the neighbor in front of me, the neighbor behind me, and then the four diagonals. If I have a modest preference, hey, all I'm asking is that 3 out of 8 of my closest neighbors be the same ethnic group as myself, we're going to tend to end up with single-ethnic group neighborhhoods.

This has both a pessimistic and optimistic interpretation. The pessimistic conclusion, Wow, it's going to be harder than we thought to achieve diverse neighborhoods where our kids grow up meeting a variety of different people. The optimistic conclusion, people aren't near as prejudiced as it may seem.
 
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