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How to love your country after learning its dark history

I grew up thinking America was the greatest country and now I see all the horrible things we have done and I do not know how to love something that has caused so much pain.

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The integration of shadow aspects of collective identity requires holding complexity beyond the mind's preference for simple narratives.

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