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The strongest identity of course is "I identify as God". Below that are weaker identities like "emperor", "king", "priest", "leader", "man", "father".
Load bearing identities have a stronger copycat effect the more immovable they are. A "nation" can be thought of as a complex engineering structure that mimetically produces "nationals" i.e. those who identify with a nation.
A nation is threatened when its load bearing identities wiffle waffle. It's like if the north star started wiggling about through the night, sometimes pointing east or west. (The 'nation' ideas is being threatened not the citizens)
Conflict arises when a shockwave tests the integrity of the identity structure. It's a "holding on to dear life" feeling. If the identity is weak, you'll let go. If it's your family member, you'll hold on to the limits of your love.
Thoughts like "those people in that other state are dumb fucking idiots" weakens the nation bond. If a shockwave would to occur, the nation would break. The bonds are too weak to hold together.
Ideas never truly die. They become "dark". They are shadows like the idea of "slavery" or "rape". They exist like ghosts in our modern consciousness but were perfectly normal things in the consciousness of our ancestors.
If "America" were to have negative connotations, how would that change things? Good or bad? One bad thing is that there's no more "See, diversity works" success story. Countries will be left with various forms of homogeonization as their only conflict resolution.
One 'good' thing is that the dangers of entitlement would be more wide spread. Overall though I think the world isn't ready just yet for the "U.S. as good" story to end.
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