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To: neolib who wrote (34459)	2/9/2007 11:29:58 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541658

Nice point. The point that keeps rumbling around in my mind is Lebanon. I remember when Lebanon was put forward as the model of future multi-ethnic states. One measure of our times, is that it's now a near model for the opposite. As for the orthogonality of ethnic cultures, that's rather abstract but I certainly agree with the sentiment. Richard Rorty argues in one of his books for an identity structure in which separate groups could go their own separate ways save for economic reasons. Get together to work, buy, and sell, go to separate neighborhoods for community. But we all know that can't work. No doubt he did. That's a weak state formula and weak states are simply not realistic in the contemporary world.