Weird how it never struck me until seeing those Canada tweets I just RTed just how strikingly centralized the American cultural imagination is. Even within the majority White+Christian, “All-American” seems to pick out a single archetype (small town football star?) not a spread
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You can see troubling signs in India now of a shift from a more spectrum-like sense of national identity like Canada to a more US-like centralizing one.
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e pluribus unum as in eliminate all competing cultures, languages, and religions. America may have bad messaging but the reality is much closer to what you're describing. People vote with their feet.
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