A living organism.
New York is a living organic city that seems to feed itself and its people on its own activity, the constant building up, tearing down and destruction, renovation and construction. The diversity here is like no where I have ever seen or experienced. When the founding fathers designed this country as a nation based on the principle of E Pluribus Unum, I don’t think that they had any idea of how vastly that principle would expand. America is baffling to me. It is a dynamic, flexible, mobile, shifting country solid in so far as its constitution and bill of rights are allowed to manifest and provide a strong legal framework for the multiple chords that are brought into harmony to make us one. I am baffled that from so many we can truly be, and remain one nation, despite our divisions. This unity amongst such diversity is the greatest weapon we have, it is our most valuable asset and our greatest strength, and it is our foundation. Without it we will surely parish into the infinite sands of history. However our unity without our diversity, without being able to harness the multitude of diverging rivers and streams that flow throughout this country, without being able to create and maintain our dynamic unity open for all those willing to be open to it, our unity will be false and inconsistent with the reality of our time. And our survival depends upon our real and honest assessment, and acceptance and invitation of our vast global diversity of today. The more people that become Americans, live in, or visit America from all over the world the better. For who could want to destroy what they are a part of? But that means we must build an America where everyone can be a part of it if they so choose. A kingdom divided against it must fall, but a kingdom that embraces diversity and difference can adapt and survive. There is yet hope for the future…
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