Don’t know how you get that from my comment.
I was merely pointing out that the early colonists and the Founders were not conciously putting together a multi-cultural society. They assumed Americans of the future would be ethnically much like Americans of their present.
In fact, the general opinion was that diverse races could not live together for long in conditions of freedom and harmony. That, for instance, freeing the slaves would eventually result in a race war that would exterminate blacks in America.
The default assumption of today’s society is that such co-existence is indeed possible and inevitable.
We’re still in the process of finding out who was right. I certainly hope today’s attitudes are, but those old white guys were pretty sharp.
Reading modern newspaper headlines about troubles in "bi-racial/cultural/religious/lingual" societies just drives that point home. We are reminded endlessly that Cyprus is two separate societies, ditto-ditto Northern Ireland, ditto-ditto Belgium, ditto-ditto Rwanda and Burundi. Just yesterday someone making a speech in Africa was calling for an end to tribal "particularism" and "tribalism" .... as if that were the end of the troubles, if only they could get rid of tribalism.
Ironic, considering that Wilson would nowadays be considered a champion of tribalism, or rather of tribal nationalism. He consistently argued that every ethnicity is or should be its own nation. Hence "Wilsonianism".
1. Common accepted culture: if the culture is Christianity or Islam or Hinduism or bolshevikism
2. common accepted notion: glorification of the state or nation or ethnicity.
this has worked in the past for centuries at a time.