America is often described as a nation of immigrants, a “melting pot” of different races, ages and ideologies. This diversity is what makes American culture special and unique.
It is also what often fuels disagreement — the rise of what James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 10 called “factions” — and makes compromise an indispensable American civic virtue.
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