Actually, the data in the book (which I mention earlier in the thread) show that national unity does NOT imply cultural unity.
I mean, everyone agreeing on what it means to be an American. As for everyone getting along, that will never ever happen no matter what.
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everybody agreeing on what it means to be an American is significantly & meaningfully more likely than everybody getting along?
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Yes. The former is quite likely, the latter will never happen (and the degree to which everyone gets along in Scandinavia is probably way overrated, though I can't say for sure because I haven't lived there).
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But I have lived in Japan, where people *say* everyone gets along. And while people do get along more there than they do in America, there is plenty of not-getting-along as well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXjd7GkHKfU …
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Name one point in American history where everybody agreed on a meaningful definition of what it means to be an American.
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I mean, that is the basic point of the book that I just read and threaded about.
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I’ll refer you back to my original tweet - ridiculous on its face.
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