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Originally posted by ktsnake
Political corruption really upsets the balance. Comparing the US to Rome in that respect is a little off though. Our society is FAR more complex than Roman society was from an economic and technological standpoint.
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My point was that even prior to Augustus there were Roman writers that consitantly wrote about moral and social decay brought on by the divergent ethinc groups within the Roman state... and this train of criticism continued right up until the end, a full 400+ years later... but ultimately it wasn't the different ethinc groups within Roman society that caused the "fall" of Rome...
Just as there has been people who have written in the past (US & Canada) that the differing ethnic groups are weakening the respective countries... they have blamed differing groups over the years as well, but the prevailing thought is always "they" are not "us", and yet "they" become "us" as new groups arrive or emerge... will these many ethnic groups casue the break-up or collapse of the state? I don't think so...