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Civil and Uncivil Societies

The Reith Lectures

CHAPTER

The Difference Between a Homogeneous and a Diverse Society

The failure to integrate immigrant communities is a huge source of future trouble for western europe. Luckily, the united states is much better at that, though it's far from perfect. The many, many impediments to equal rights of african ans were incrementally, steadily swept away by a movement which began at the grass roots and only finally achieved success at the national and state legislature level. Same applies to the rights of homosexual citizens, which were fought for by a tremendously successful and spontaneous, voluntary movement. That seems to me to illustrate quite well the point i am making.

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