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9’ _ the “killed and unskilled labour from East to West; the JaJ’IMC&Ie migration of Pakistanis to England . and CUaada~, the North AfHcans to France and the Turb to, Weat OeJmany-all seeking the “Golden Prize.” Some or them actually obtain what they were seekin, aDd if sufficiently educated, light-skinned and know- Jed&eableiu Euglish arid English ways, do enter the Jdgb-ltatus professions and at least for their children and grandchildren, gain the prize of acceptance into ~ the Establishment and total assimilation into Western . lodety and culture-but the overwhelming majority, filling the slum areas of every large city to overflowing, do Dot. They simply remain as the proleteriat-a Dever-failing sUPllly of cheap labour and imprisoned in a’status of perfil anent inferiority.

Most Americans who live outside the ghettos or urban slu m enclaves, knew so little of what is happening inside them that they were surpr~d and shocked when .l’ecent racial coo8icts ripped their cities apart; when anti-Semitism affected an election in New Jersey, when Mexican-Americans became aountain guerillas in Mexico, when Indians of the Pacific .. Northwest went to jail rather than give up their rights to fish. White Americans are surprised and shocked because they live in a mythical country. I n this mythical America, the c:oDditions of Negroes, Indians and Spanish-speaking Americ:ans ~ assumed to be gradually but inevitably improving