Some excellent VDH on how things have changed

Here's one interesting excerpt from, as usual, a most insightful piece by Victor Davis Hanson:

Race relations are being redefined as never before. Interracial marriage, integration, and immigration have made the old rubrics — “white,” “black,” “brown” — obsolete. Rigid, half-century-old affirmative-action programs have not caught up with everyday reality. Their overseers are likewise ossified, now that millions in an interracial America do not fit into their precise racial slots, and being white — to the degree that it can be easily defined — is not synonymous with innate privilege. The notion that Tiger Woods’s children need an admissions or employment edge over natives of Appalachia or immigrants from India is surreal.

Abroad, things are just as upside down. Russia is no longer the avatar of global Communism but the world’s largest cutthroat oil producer. China’s cultural revolution is now about making tons of money and driving luxury cars. The European Union has been reduced to pointing fingers and standing in line to beg Germany for cash — a far cry from its advertised 21st-century utopian brotherhood. Our old neighbor Mexico is now a near-failed narco-state, bearing a greater resemblance to Afghanistan than to its brother nations in North America.