My money's on "inclusive". That concept seems like a particular bitter pill for some folks.

It's beyond preposterous to think that a long-forgotten empire had the same dreamy pantsuit-wearing aspirations to "multiculturalism" the authors have.

Multiculturalism has been a winning recipe for empire-building since at least Roman times. If it was a feature of the Hittite empire, would it really be that surprising? Perhaps it would, as you seem to believe that pants (of all things) were a necessary precursor, and the historical record for those only goes back to around 500BC.

Sorry, I'm being coy. Your "pantsuit" dig is clearly an attempt to associate multiculturalism with femininity, and therefore weakness. Does that make you feel superior?

Roman times? It's even older. Cyrus the Great won over people by promising to honor their traditions.

He did die in battle against women who would not submit to his will though.

I was brought up in the US, and sadly, from that perspective, history starts at Rome.

That's a bit like saying that the Spanish Armada was "defeated in battle by women" because Elizabeth I was on the throne at the time.

"dreamy pantsuit-wearing aspirations?"

Why do people like you always sound like stereotypes from a 1960s sitcom?

It’s beyond preposterous that you would be so adamantly sure that they wouldn’t. Assimilation might just have to be your favourite new word