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We are jumping up and down about democracy with International agreement that it is a good idea! My gosh, at the beginning of the US democracy only 200 years ago, less than 4 life spans, the rest of the world thought a handful of radicals were leading us down the path of destruction. I think Britian stopped warring with us, because they assumed our democracy would soon callapse, and they could walk back in and clean up the mess. Now people around the world talk about democracy as a legitimate choice.
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The United States is not, and has never been, a democracy. It's a constitutional republic.
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Racism and sexism were assumed natural and based in the laws of nature.
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No, a bunch of so-called "scientists" decided to come up with theories to explain the differences in various groups of humans in order to classify them according to superiority/inferiority. Now we have anthropology, sociology and psychology. As for "sexism," that depends on how you're defining it. Throughout human history there have been clearly defined roles for men and women. It is an idiot (or a feminist, which is really the same thing) that believes there are no inherent differences between men and women (though different does not mean unequal).
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Now both are assumed wrong. There is resistance to this change around the world, but I think it is distained that we become as one, respecting individual differences while at the same time assuming our individual rights and dignity.
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Who assumes both are wrong? Clearly the racist sees nothing wrong with racism. Clearly the "sexist" (whatever that means) doesn't see it as wrong.
Your attempt to make it sound like this stupid notion of diversity is a good thing and somehow humanity's destiny is just a bunch of fluff.
The day may come when we humans finally decide to be human instead of being "American" or "European" or "African" or "Asian" or this or that nationality or any combination thereof. Then again, those groups who insist on their unique identity may fight to retain their separate group identity.