On a personal level, you need to consciously examine yourself and see if what you are doing to another person, if it is done to you, will you be happy? From a societal perspective, people should never be negatively influenced by your society, if you live in a racist society it does not guarantee that you are racist. Society does not change people, it is people who change society, because without people there is no society. I will also agree with the writer, when we say "melting pot", I think the pot has melted too much and made us generic, people should learn their history and appreciate it, people identify with black, white or colored, but that's not who we really have