Multiculturalism has an unexpected connection to another of the great challenges to America's civic order: social atomism.
Both the state and the ever-expanding market tend to reduce individuals' reliance on the other human beings who are nearest to them. This is a good thing up to a point, but the solvent properties of big government and global markets have no natural limit short of society's total decomposition. The natural and traditional ties between people are subjected to a constant acid bath.
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