As much as I would like to post an article about healthcare today, I won’t. I’m sure that there are individuals a lot smarter out there who are pontificating from every angle on this very subject and I’m afraid my opinion is much too biased as I am currently suffering this “awful” socialist healthcare program here in the UK.
Anyway, a second installment of the Moderate Thought.
This week a good friend of mine was passionately arguing two points: Firstly that America is the capital of the world. The United Kingdom often boasts its multi-cultural credentials, but it doesn’t have anything on the United-States.
His second point I found very striking – America’s multi-cultural credentials are because of America’s genetic make-up, a direct result of it being the great social experiment – an experiment that he believes has failed.
Now this took me aback and to this day I don’t know how to respond. I feel that there are some historical justifications for his conclusion, but where he can point to “the genocide of native Americans”, slavery and now seemly negative connotations Americans have towards Muslims, I would point to the abolition of slavery, the civil rights act and more recently the election of President Obama. All of them signs that a multi-cultural society, though not perfect, can work.
Then again neither I, nor my friend, are American. Who better than to debate whether “the great social experiment” has failed than the good people of the Moderate Voice?
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