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You can now remove the buzz-words “diversity” and “globalization” from the phrase book, just as James A. Baker banned the use of the phrase “leadership and excellence” when he took charge for George H.W. Bush. The age is over. We are going to need new buzz-words.

That is the message beneath the message of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s declaration that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had “utterly failed.” Two things are coming to clash here: the primal need for a uniform regional culture to connect the people to the earth, to the universe, to time past and the future â€" that is, the need for a soul â€" and the accommodation of the steel-and-glass zeitgeist that knew no boundaries, which was the American spirit of capitalism in the post-war period.

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