JOB COHENprocess of discussion, meeting, respect, and dialogue. This is a process for which we must
allow sufficient time and with which we must persevere even in difficult times.
I have told you all this in the full realization thatminorityandmajorityare political
terms that sometimes have little bearing on how people live their lives, and in the realiza-
tion that life is much more beautiful and complex, and that a person—and certainly a
modern person—may have several identities, several loyalties, and several worlds, no mat-
ter from what country he or she comes. What that life looks like, however, is not a matter
for government, but for dreams and literature.
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