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America's openness mechanism: eliminating inherited history and ethnicity so anyone can assimilate into the game.
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melting pot
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The Levant is described as a dependent edge-of-empire zone and melting pot where traders, local elites, foreign mercenaries, nomads, hill people, Canaanites, and Egyptian priests coexist.
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Jiang's preferred theory is that Sumerian was a Creole language invented by a melting pot of cultures and languages, analogous to Mandarin as a palace language created for communication among many groups.
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"...Okay? So the concept that America creates is the idea of melting pot. We welcome anyone who comes to America, regardless of your"
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"...as long as you're willing to assimilate into America, into the melting pot. Okay? That's the first idea. The second idea is fairness. And..."
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"...of its position, okay, the Levant is what we call a melting pot, or a meeting place. So every culture, every language, every religion..."
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"So the Levant was really the center of the world for most of its history. And so it was a meeting place, mainly for..."
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"...a nation. At this point, it's really a meeting place, a melting pot of cultures, languages, and religion. It's as diverse as can be...."
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"...this. Sumerian is a Creole language. It was invented by a melting pot of cultures and languages. Okay? And it's very similar to the..."
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"...has always had an issue of racism because America is a melting pot. Right. So if you go back to the 19th century, the..."
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"...of Russian statecraft, essentially because, I mean, Russia is a fascinating melting pot of Asian and Western cultural influences, I think, which most people..."
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"...so another saying this is the levant it is a multicultural melting pot lots of different groups of people and at this time in..."
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"...is, America is a coalition of conflicts. Okay? It is a melting pot of differences. Okay? So, what I will teach you next Thursday,..."
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"...their own culture, which eventually spreads. Also, because this is a melting pot, it's really an immigrant culture. They're able to bring the most..."
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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
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A source-grounded reading of Literary Genesis: Israel begins as a political coalition, David needs legitimacy, and the Bible becomes the technology that turns propaganda into living memory.
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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The Bible begins, in this lecture's argument, as political spin for David: a library of collective imagination that turns usurpation, murder, and fear of rivals into legitimacy, identity, and eventually literature.
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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