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You point at something that is very apparent in the United States.  There are currently two visions of what America is as a country as of 2022:


1. The traditional view.  America was built by European settlers who would ultimately form a new nation that was both very similar and different than their European homeland.  Through hard work and commitment the United States became a super power.   


2. The revisionist view.  America was a country built by White patriarchs who oppressed women and various other races/groups of people to make the United States a super power.  For them, America was a prosperous country to live in, but that prosperity was exclusive to mostly them alone. 


I would argue that vision #2 is the consensus within our current ruling institutions.  The problem with vision #2 is that it offers no positive vision for what a country should be.  It's simply an oppression Olympics between various groups of people vying for who got shafted the hardest.  The only thing that unifies those who believe in vision #2 is utter contempt for White males and any traditional values that have been passed on throughout the generations.  And by traditional values, I do not just mean cultural norms that are very prevalent in White culture. This line of thinking leads to eradicating gender differences in languages such as Spanish (IE Latinx instead of Latino/Latina).  This line of thinking leads to emasculating men of all races and creeds.       


Vision #1 is no longer applicable in the United States.  This nation has undergone so much demographic and cultural change that it would be impossible for the millions of different types of people to embrace it. And quite frankly, why would they embrace it?  Indians (not Native Americans) come to the United States because of an H1B Visa and an opportunity to work as some IT specialist in Silicon Valley.  They could probably care less about America's traditions or history.  The same could be said about poor Latin Americans who enter through the Southern border.  To them, working as a dishwasher at Applebee's is better than living in Mexico.      


Ultimately, I believe that these two visions are dialectally incompatible with one another.  I think it would be best for the different regions of the United States to cut their ties with one another and go their own way.  Divorces are ugly and have profound collateral damage on families, but sometimes they are a necessity when the two parents hate each other to the point of violence.  Lets not let affairs get to this point.  Because if they do, I believe you could possibly see the types of grotesque acts that occurred during the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.


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