GMAT Reading Comprehension (RC) | The beginning of what was to become the United States

The beginning of what was to become the United States was characterised by inconsistencies in the values and behaviour of its population. These inconsistencies were reflected by its spokesmen who took conflicting stances in many areas; but on the subject of race, the conflicts were particularly vivid. The idea that the Caucasian race and the European civilisation were superior was well ingrained in the culture of the colonists at the very time that the “egalitarian” republic was founded. Voluminous
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