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Well, what I think this all boils down to is that traditional good ol' American practice of assimilation.
Where places like Canada continue to work with the pros and cons of a multicultural society, people in places like Alabama continue to hope for a "real American" society.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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