在历史进程中，很少有强大的国家能发展出这样一种感受：认为自己不是基于民族文化遗产，而是基于一系列所有公民生存之所系的价值观。
Over the course of history, very few powerful states have developed a sense of themselves as being based not on ethnic heritage, but on a set of values that all citizens can live by.