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<blockquote data-quote="bucky" data-source="post: 1331511" data-attributes="member: 10588">Like I said, sun people/ice people is just a theory. I don't know that it's legitimate, but it mostly seems to be to me, if you don't nit pick. I nit picked it a lot at first when I encountered it too, desperate to hold on to my comforting civic nationalism. I finally had to gradually let that go as I spent years actually living among other cultures while speaking their languages. The mounting evidence that no, we're not all the same, finally overcame the cognitive dissonance necessary to sustain my safe, pleasant civic nationalism.Of course, to the bolded part about God loving all His creations. It doesn't follow that all His creations are equal in every way or that American ideals of democracy and free markets are ideal for all people. That's a pretty ludicrous idea if you think about it, like believing that whatever they're doing in China and Japan would be ideal for Americans. My wife's country in Central America used to function very well as a military dictatorship, then for whatever reason they decided, or it was decided for them, that they would ape American democracy and it descended into the barely livable hellhole it is now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bucky, post: 1331511, member: 10588"] Like I said, sun people/ice people is just a theory. I don't know that it's legitimate, but it mostly seems to be to me, if you don't nit pick. I nit picked it a lot at first when I encountered it too, desperate to hold on to my comforting civic nationalism. I finally had to gradually let that go as I spent years actually living among other cultures while speaking their languages. The mounting evidence that no, we're not all the same, finally overcame the cognitive dissonance necessary to sustain my safe, pleasant civic nationalism. Of course, to the bolded part about God loving all His creations. It doesn't follow that all His creations are equal in every way or that American ideals of democracy and free markets are ideal for all people. That's a pretty ludicrous idea if you think about it, like believing that whatever they're doing in China and Japan would be ideal for Americans. My wife's country in Central America used to function very well as a military dictatorship, then for whatever reason they decided, or it was decided for them, that they would ape American democracy and it descended into the barely livable hellhole it is now. [/QUOTE]

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