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Baby boomers were charging through American society at warp speed, challenging the prevailing morals and mores — and terrifying large numbers of Americans, who felt that the fabric of the nation was unraveling.

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What’s amazing about “Brazil,” even after 40 years, is how prophetic it was about the manipulation of public mores and knowledge by a totalitarian regime.

We have a president who does not respect those mores, who doesn't respect the guardrails, and, in fact, who sees himself as being some kind of authoritarian leader or king.

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From their inception in the 19th century, these schools explicitly sought to eradicate Indigenous culture and instill in Native peoples the language and mores of white settlers.

Greenland’s social environment is also different from Denmark’s — its Indigenous population, which has its own social mores, is larger as a proportion of the population, and residents are concentrated in the giant island’s southwest.

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