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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 114108" data-attributes="member: 891">I agree with your conclusion but for opposite reasons.Americans have learned to embrace change and diversity in a way no other society in human history has.The ability to survive change and adapt is what sets humanity off from the other animals. And Americans among the human civilizations have mastered it better than any others.We change our culture and accept foreign ideas as a matter of course.We have no real fear of the foreign or alien left in us. We embrace it where other civilizations attempt to legislate against it.Sure we do a little of that as well. Which shows we have not fully progressed in this department.But we are much better to adapt to sudden change than any other civilization.Time and time again in our history we have had some other power trump us when it rolled out it's one trick pony. Everybody thought 'well that's it the Americans are done for' but a few laters we come back with a whole new plan and a whole new way of approaching the problem and the other side is still stuck in it's one trick pony and eventually the trick gets old...As long as we keep the ability to adapt; we will not fall. Though the people who call themselves Americans in the future may be something totally alien to what we think an American is today.For one thing they're likely to look very different... given current migration, immigration, and birth rate trends. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />We won't get upstaged until another civilization comes along that is even better at adapting than us. Which in my opinion won't happen until a civilization is again formed by a mass immigration of people from other regions to one common place. There's no reall room for that on the planet; but space may be it. Space may be our downfall. Or the sea if we for some reason start colonizing there.</blockquote>

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