I mean that we shouldn't go around patting ourselves on the back because we are experiencing great problems with integration into a single society with common goals and respect for each other. I think that is because we are far less tolerant of each other's differences than anyone wants to admit. And that goes for "whites" and "non'-whites". Patriotism is certainly affected, though, and perhaps if patriotism were higher we would feel that pride of being a well functioning multicultural nation because at least THAT would give us a shared belief. Now, we often have very little that we share across the different races and cultures.