Words matter. These are the best Samuel P. Huntington Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
First of all, we haven’t always welcomed immigrants.
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
It was this society and culture that among other things – including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe – attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.
