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Originally Posted by Ayatollahgondola
We are not multi-cultural here. One Culture; American. We may be multi-racial though.
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Agreed. Although I am weak on the notion of our culture being "American". I think we need to be more specific than that.
Our culture is the culture of the
United States Citizen. Our culture is the culture of
citizenship.
It's true, there are a lot of word games going on. Increasingly I think the idea of being an "American" does not include anything like being a US citizen any more.
Not only is our culture the culture of US citizenship, but we advance the idea of national citizenship for other countries as well and respect their citizenship no matter what their race. Most peoples deserves a country they can call their own that respects the borders of others as well as their own. This is a respectable enough notion that people are willing to lie about their claims to nationalism, just as people lie about claims to citizenship.