issolve prejudice presumptions and myths and subside the irrelevant antipathy of the remote past. He uses the example of immigration and consequent hostility but does not discuss the long term positive affects that will emerge as generations pass and the population becomes ever more diverse. Eventually a member of any particular civilization will be so desensitized to the physical and cultural differences of his neighbor that belonging to a civilization can no longer be determined by religion, ethnicity, or culture.
             It is also argued that economic modernization and social change weakens the nation state as a source of identity. This is explained as a detrimental consequence however if national identity is weakened commonalities between nation state
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