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shadowgovt
10 months ago
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U.S. will review social media for foreign student ...
Why? The United States is not Japan. The United States has built its national identity on exceptionalism; regression-to-the-mean reasoning is flawed in that context.
When the United States was founded, the average nation was some flavor of monarchy.
esseph
10 months ago
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Sounds like we're regressing-to-the-mean, then.
shadowgovt
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There are certainly quite a few people trying to make that happen. They are opposed by, well, Americans.
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When the United States was founded, the average nation was some flavor of monarchy.