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The Prime Minister recently made reference to Japan as an ethnic state with the Emperor as the head of the family. In contrast, some years ago another Japanese Prime Minister referred to the United States as a mongrel nation. In the case of the US, this is both true and a great strength.
Although it has been difficult, the US has been working out how people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds can live together in peace and profit from the diversity of talents and ideas that such a mixture makes possible. It has also provided some justification for the leadership of the US in world affairs.
The US can sympathize with Japanese concerns because they are Japanese, in part. In the same way the US is also African, European, Middle Eastern and every other thing on the face of the Earth. It is there that a great experiment in ethnic harmony has been taking place and where solutions to the world’s most pressing problems may be developed. It’s a mongrel world after all.
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It’s a Mongrel World 
