ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the authors' interviews presented a series of domestic issues that were raised: the last presidential election, their overall view of American society, its freedom, its fairness, and its equality of opportunity, the condition of "the American family", the distribution of wealth, race relations, gender equality, and the acceptance of homosexuality. It considers the respondents' views of race relations, gender equality, and homosexuality. Respondents varied a good deal in how much prejudice and ethnic tension they see remaining in American society. As a consequence, race, gender, and sexual orientation almost inevitably raise difficult issues: about whites' responsibility for remedying centuries of discrimination, about the implications of the advantages that whites continue to enjoy, about blacks' responsibility for making the most of the opportunities, about the essential similarities and differences of men and women, about men's responsibility for the history of sexism, about the normality of same-sex desire, and the nature of romance, marriage, and family.
