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I SPENT a substantial span of my life in the United States, more specifically in California. And that was during perhaps my most impressionable years, from about mid-teens to mid-twenties. It would thus be an understatement to say that the US left me with many fond memories. So much so that at the time I thought I would eventually settle down in the US. But life of course made its interesting turns and I ended up going back to where I came from — Sabah. Yet perhaps the one most important lesson I took from the US is its long-enduring sociopolitical practice enshrined in a Latin phrase on its national emblem: “E pluribus unum,” or “Out of many, one.”