I’ve talked a bit recently about the book Us and Them . Getting behind stereotypes has been on my mind lot lately. So Andrew Sullivan’s blog exploration of ” whose country ” America actually is (continued 2 3 4 5 6 ) has been fascinating. He’s summed it up in a Sunday Times piece: Scratch white America and beneath it is black . There are obvious parallels for those in the UK who’ve been arguing about whose country Britain is. In human history there is no purity, only change.