Hypothesis: a multicultural society remains stable -- avoids civil unrest -- only if it has rigid and strictly enforced social class divisions.
This would explain ancient Rome.
This of course is a very dismal hypothesis, at odds with the American Dream. Which ideal is the better to abandon, multiculturalism or lack of class divisions? Can we avoid having to choose only one? The only way I can think of that might remotely work is to carefully examine how notions of social class and culture are both underpinned by the need to control sex.
Not all social class structures are stable. There is required some mutual cooperation among many, or most, of classes to maintain the status quo.
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