Tribes reproduce as the people who make up the tribe reproduce.
Values reproduce as the people who hold them reproduce, plus as others adopt those values, minus as those who hold those values drop them.
But the US was supposed to be a country where values mattered more than tribe. "We hold these truths to be self evident", and all that, and if you accepted the values, you belonged. That was an imperfect ideal, but it was the ideal until rather recently. I'm not sure to what degree it still is.
ImPostingOnHN|7 days ago
AnimalMuppet|7 days ago
Values reproduce as the people who hold them reproduce, plus as others adopt those values, minus as those who hold those values drop them.
But the US was supposed to be a country where values mattered more than tribe. "We hold these truths to be self evident", and all that, and if you accepted the values, you belonged. That was an imperfect ideal, but it was the ideal until rather recently. I'm not sure to what degree it still is.