Sadly in other times and places these forces often imploded the whole culture.

We're still in the U.S.A. coasting on a political and economic architecture that lets these stresses ventilate. All that is so underappreciated and so overlooked -- especially by those in national media/politics who abuse it. (But then, per Twain, Mencken, Will Rogers, etc. etc. -- it's probly always been like this). Now it's our turn to see it first hand.