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We report on recent work concerning the effect which the change in vacuumstructure (negative energy Dirac sea), in the presence of a confining scalarfield, has on the nucleon structure functions and parton distributions. Usingthe Dirac equation in 1+1 dimensions, we show that distortions in the Dirac seaare responsible for part of the violation of the Gottfried sum rule -- i.e.,part of the flavor asymmetry in the proton sea. Our basic argument is that,even if isospin is an exact symmetry, the presence of a confining potentialchanges the vacuum structure, and inevitably leads to a violation of SU(2)flavour symmetry in a hadron with a different number of valence $u$ and $d$quarks. The same mechanism also leads to a prediction for $\Delta\bar{u}$ and$\Delta\bar{d}$.Comment: A sentence was corrected. 8 pages, 2 figures, uses sprocl.sty.  Presented at the Joint Workshop of the Special Research Center for the  Subatomic Structure of Matter (CSSM) and the National Institute for  Theoretical Physics on Lepton Scattering, Hadrons and QCD, March 26 - April  6, 2001, Adelaide, Australia. To be published in the Proceeding

DISTORTIONS IN THE NEGATIVE ENERGY DIRAC SEA: VIOLATION OF THE GOTTFRIED SUM RULE AND $\Delta \bar u$ IN THE PROTON