45 ordspråk av Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel P. Huntington
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.
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The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
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There's only one non-western territory that I can think is still run by a western government, and that's Hong Kong.
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They were establishing new societies, in some cases for commercial reasons, in more cases for religious reasons.
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They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
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This creedal concept of American identity is now often assumed to be the total truth concerning American identity.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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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.
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We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
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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.
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Well, I think as far as China is concerned, it's the economic dynamism of China, which has already made China more assertive in world affairs.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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Well, I think the worst thing would be for us to stumble into a great war without realizing it, without being the - without being prepared for it.
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Yes, immigrants and immigration have been an important part of the American history. But they are not all American history.
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