In some ways the most distinctive literature America has is a kind of Southern literature, white and black.

在某种程度上,美国最有特点的文学,就是一种南方文学,关于白人和黑人

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And deep at the root of Manifest Destiny, of course and there's book after book written on this is a deep and abiding American white supremacy.

很明显,这都源于命运天定,关于这点有很多著书证明,命运天定是根植于美国的白人至上主义

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There are now dozens, probably hundreds, of studies that show that people who would otherwise show animosity towards one another, like blacks and whites in the United States, like each other more if they're brought together.

目前有几十个，甚至几百个研究,表明在不接触的情况下,互相憎恶的人，例如美国的黑人和白人，如果让他们发生接触，他们会更喜欢对方。

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There were approximately 400,000 slaveholders, white slaveholders, in the American South by 1860.

截至1860年,美国南部,大约有四十万白人奴隶主

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If these are the conditions for contact, to what extent are they met in the university setting between, say blacks and whites, people from the American South versus people from the American North, people from other countries versus people from the United States?

如果大学环境里有这些接触的条件，有多少是属于促成因素的？,例如在黑人和白人之间，来自美国南方的人,和来自美国北方的人之间，外国的学生,和美国的学生之间？

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