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[quote=Anonymous]I think PP makes a lot of good points.  I think OP also misses the mark to discuss diversity as an absolute good or not.  The US was founded on certain intellectual principles about how society should govern itself, and those principles necessarily lent themselves to allowing for a more diverse population.  Because tribal instincts are deeply ingrained in the human psyche, principles are not easy or always natural for humans to attain; but our continued willingness to abide by them even when its hard is what has helped the US be one of the longest standing and most stable governments on the planet.

Norman MacLain once criticized being unwilling to work toward overcoming human nature by pointing out that a lot of things are natural, like 'defecating in one's pants'...but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to overcome our natural instincts in order to be better.

Even dominant cultures evolve and change and splinter (cf. the Lutherans and Calvinists who were basically considered blasphemers when they first emerged with new ideas)...as hard as it is, I think the strength of the US is that we already have a framework in place to accept and integrate those changes.[/quote]

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