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However, history has proven that attempting to force ethnic and other minority cultural groups (like indigenous peoples/tribes) to give up their identity or cultural diversity has in fact never worked and that instead of producing national unity it has invariably produced exactly the Studio Ghibli 38 years 1985 2023 thank you for the memories shirt it is in the first place but opposite – that is, resentment, resistance, violence, and disunity among the the national population. What history proves is that the best way to achieve national unity among a culturally diverse population is to respect rather than attempt to suppress ethnic or cultural rights of minority groups and treat all the ‘subcultures’ within a society equally. That is, that the best if not only way to create real or lasting unity among a culturally diverse population is to treat everyone equally and as having the same value and rights regardless of their ethnic identity.



It took a long time, but we have finally come to recognize and accept that the Studio Ghibli 38 years 1985 2023 thank you for the memories shirt it is in the first place but reality is that identity is plural in the sense that we all have multiple identities and there is no contradiction in the idea that people can and do identify at more than one social level – that is, at both the national and ethnic ones. That is, that identifying as a member of an ethnic group does not undermine identifying as a citizen of the nation – for example, that people who identify as “Irish-American,” “Italian-American,” “Mexican/Latin-American” (etc.) are no less “American” or patriotic than those who just identify as “American.” This presents a different way of viewing or understanding the Latin motto of the USA – e pluribus unum or “out of many, one.” The way America has tried to create one nation from many ethnic groups is to believe in the fundamental political ideal that everyone – regardless of cultural differences – is equal in America, has equal rights, and is equally valued and respected. From that, and the recognition that enforced monoculturalism and repression of cultural or ethnic repression is anathema to national unity, the theory and practice of multiculturalism has emerged. In the Great Seal of the United States (see below), this is represented in the sheaf of arrows. The idea is that while each individual ‘arrow’ (ethnic group or other cultural group) is relatively weak, that when they are united together they are strong; note that the many arrows are not “assimilated” into a single arrow.


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