As a historian who has lived and worked in a usually stodgy city (Philadelphia) for 40 years, I can tell you from personal experience that individual outsiders of different ethnic backgrounds can never really join the "old" order, but they can help established participants to stretch, if not actually change, the boundaries of perception. Over time, after much work, traditional perceptions do change. And when they do, even a little, it can be transformational.
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Thank you so much for the support and enthusiasm @kenfinkel! I think I'm making some headway with the community and hopefully we can all work together to really stretch those perceptions and bring in more opportunity. It's definitely a long road ahead but more and more community members are helping me down that path =)