“So, in this same way you could expand your identity to include ‘we as the region’ or ‘we as the country,’ and so on. And ultimately, in the case of society, the human community, we can extend this unity to include everybody, so we can say, ‘we, the people of the earth.’ So at the level of humanity, there are differences among the individual members but at the same time we can see a ‘sameness,’ we can relate to each other on a deeper, more fundamental basis. . . . You know,” he added, as he prepared to end the session, “these days I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of usage of the word
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