kallen doesn't like that. it doesn't make sense. his experience in the west end of boston, in observing american life, his experience is something a little bit different. his is an experience in which you have your ethnic identity and your american identity side by side, but there isn't this fusing. you don't become just like the italians down the road or god forbid the yankees in the suburb. you are still a member of a particular group, but you're alsoen american. he develops this idea which he will continue to elaborate on in the next 20 years or so of this idea of the united states as a culturally plural society. you see this is the most famous passage from the article here, and he's comparing american civilization to a multiplicity in a unity. an orchestration of mankind. the metaphor is a symptom in which you have different parts, different instruments playing different melodies, different sounds coming out, and each element of the symphony would be a different cultural group, a different ethnic group, and individually, they ha

kallen, we the best. >> good job.is tour bus caught on fire and he lost everything. >> i just lost $500,000 worth of equipment in the bus, all my clothes. >> he was out promoting his album. they don't know what caused this fire in which nobody was injured. he bought this bus back in 2010 because renting a tour bus to go out on tour, he said, was adding up. this thing was super sweet on the inside. customized. he was riding in style in this thing, or he was. >> this is nicer than most homes i've seen. >> i've got to say for having your tour bus burn down, the dude has a pretty positive attitude. >> it ain't going to stop what i'm trying to do. it ain't going to make me stop and climb the mountain top. >> he's right. that is stressful when your tour bus burns down but he's going to keep going. he even goes on to say no dates are going can be canceled. >> not canceling no shows. i'm coming to everything. i'm going to find a way. don't cancel [ bleep ]. >> apparently he's not canceling anything. >> it's good everyone got