Is it important for the united states to have a sense of shared values or not? what are the risks and benefits for individuals and the country of having a sense of shared values?

Remark

Canada is the same way. In general, Canada suffers from a division that will be hard to overcome. Quebec is on one side of the division Ontario (mostly) is on the other side, or at least that is our history. In 1995, the people of Quebec voted on whether to leave or stay in confederation. By the very narrowest of votes, she decided to stay. What makes Canada such a unique place is that it didn't matter what the outcome was, it would have been obeyed. Luckily for all of us, she stayed.

I'm telling you all of this because America would do well to study that vote. It was a peaceful way to get the differences across. It would have helped us if we had a unified view of what Canada was.

It would help America if she understood how a homogenious population (a unified population) would help her. America has always been a melting pot. The Irish, the Jews, the East Europeans, the English, the Germans and French have all benefited from the American experience. All have their leaders who rose to the top not on someone else's power, but on their own merit. Caesar Chevaz is an example of that.

Benefits of shared values.

1. Leadership is chosen on Merit.

2 Ambition determines a station in life.

3. Cooperation brings better results than 4000 groups all pulling the wrong way.

4. Tolerance of religious beliefs is better accomplished with shared values.

5. Politics is less filled with hatred and animosity.

6. A natural curiosity about other cultures are developed.

Drawbacks.

1. It's boring to have everyone celebrating the same things at the same time.

2. Debate is reduced to polite agreement, and not the blood curdling sense of learning that it can be.

3. A country of shared values hardly exists anywhere on the planet, much as socialists would like to disagree.

a. "how old man winter was driven back” and “ormuzd and arimanes"