Like where exactly uses the US model? (Other than those countries it's been enforced in by the US (Iraq etc))
Most of Latin America, France, parts of Africa and Asia. Pretty much any country that is a federal republic. Similiarly, there are many countries that follow the UK model, and some, which are a mixture of both.
Papua New Guinea is thought to be the most diverse nation in the world, being home to a whopping 820 languages. The US is up there, along with the UK also India, Indonesia and Nigeria.
Which countries have collapsed?
People have traveled from every corner of the globe to live in the US, I don't think you can say the same for Papua New Guinea. Yea, they might have a large array of tribes, but the US has many people who are very different from one another in all aspects.
There are countless countries that have fallen because the ethnic groups split up. The Soviet Union, the Balkans, and Sudan are just a few modern examples. Granted, there are many other factors in the examples above, but racial differences played an enormous role.
Along with the rest of the western world? And at what cost to the rest of the planet?
The planet is important, and we will need to find a compromise.
Canada, Russia, China, Australia... blimey, even tiny little Spain enjoys good geographical diversity, from the white sandy beaches to the snow covered mountains, to the dusty plains and then to the north with the forests and rivers...
I never said other countries didn't have geographical diversity, I'm just proud that I live in a country with such geographical diversity.
Of that I have no doubt. But then how would you know unless you'd lived in all the other nations on Earth?
Of course I won't know for sure.
However, I love the fact that I can travel from a tropical paradise, to the desert, to the mountains, to the cold tundra, and to the plains, all without leaving the US.That's not the case in most countries.
And this is the whole point with patriotism: it's an unquestioned love of something highly arbitrary without and confirming facts, and at the end of the day it's used as a method of control an manipulation.
That's the thing though, it can exist side by side with criticism. You're also right, it can be used as a method of control, just like anything. And hey, it may be arbritrary and unfounded, but at the end of the day I still love living in the US and being American. :thumbup
