The tough-minded are content that differences should exist. They respect differences. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.
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Ruth Benedict was a 19th-century American anthropologist and folklorologist. Ruth Fulton Benedict was an American anthropologist and folklorist. Read more on Wikipedia →