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Cultural Zones...my girlfriend is from Texas and you would swear it was a separate country from the way she talks about it.
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As am I, and I agree, sometimes we act as if we are our own country. But we also recognize that we are a (large) part of a country that is very different from us, and sometimes we have to put aside our differences and work together.
The main reason we(US) are able to do this is the fact that we are nearly devoid of single generation oppressors/oppressees ( IE There isn't anyone who has been signifcantly oppressed in their generation now living side by side with their real or imagined oppressors.)
The hardest part of Nation building is the developement and maintenance of trust between the different cultures. The only way to help this along is free press without the biases of the west (Fox News, CBS), or the mid-east (Al Jazeera, Al Arabia). Unfortunately, sensationalism seems to be the only thing that sells these days.