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Bruce Lee was the man, but sorry to burst your bubble. America is about anything but excellence and diversity. If by excellence you mean being solely responsible for the death of millions in the last hundred years on foreign shores, yes that is excellence. If by diversity you mean white people, then yes America is about diversity.
America spent 300 years enslaving Africans, only to lynch them once they were freed. America spent just as many years killing, raping, and destroying Indian lives and culture. Only to put them on reservations and introduce them to capitalism without giving them the education to adjust. The problem with America is that since we haven't been land locked we don't have the "turbulent" past of many other continents so we think that holds us up to some higher standard. Raping enslaving, and killing "inferior" people does not promote diversity. Nor does modern Jim Crow laws like drug sentences like the difference in punishment for crack vs. coke.
If you go down to Jena Louisiana America is not about diversity, and thats a place where it is publicly not about diversity. Last hired, first fired, what about institutional racism that is everywhere?
We invaded another country so that we could "give" them the gift of democracy. We impose our will on other people. The way we "give" democracy is the same way Hitler "gave" the Jews summer camps like Auschwitz.
Democracy is not the best option, capitalism is not the best option, America is not the best option. I'm not saying i know what is but just because your whole life you have been told this is the land of opportunity doesn't make it true. I don't care who tells you it is, the idea that the United States is a meritocracy is a lie. The exception does not prove the rule.
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