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Jack David Eller is a retired associate professor of anthropology at the Community College of Denver. He is the author of Cutural Anthropology: Global Forces Local Lives, Culture and Diversity in the United States, and Cruel Creeds: Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence Across Culture and History.
Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country.
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