Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity

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The author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order analyzes the gradual erosion of American identity over the recent decades because of bilingualism, multiculturalism, and other factors and explores key signs of a revival of American identity and a return to core cultural values in the wake of September 11th. 75,000 first printing.

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In his seminal The Clash of Civilizations, Huntington anticipated the United States' battle with militant Islam. Here he turns his laser on America-or, rather, America as he thinks it ought to be. Despite its clinical tone, this book is an aggressive polemic whose central argument-that America, at heart, has been and in many ways should remain a Christian, Anglocentric country-wouldn't be out of place on many a conservative radio station. The author seeks at length to prove that the American Creed, which he defines as a Protestant-influenced ideology modeled on the British system, was the founders' original intent and remains America's best course. He then turns to many of the usual subjects-the imperiled primacy of English, the dangers of immigration and multiculturalism-to make his case. He argues that a growing divide between the patriotic working class and "denationalized elites" will lead to internal fissures. Where those findings can lead is another question. For instance, he predicts a movement of white nativism. This movement while not "advocating white racist supremacy" would still believe that the "mixing of races and hence culture is the road to national degeneration." The book is also marred by a number of self-contradictions; for example, Huntington draws heavily on the founders to make a nationalist case even as he acknowledges that notions of Americanism (as opposed to allegiances to individual states) became popular only after the Civil War. Exhaustively researched and occasionally inspired, this polemic remains more often filled with colorless and ineffectual writing that will provide evidence for the converted but do little to persuade the doubters.
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Perhaps best known for The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), the us-against-them polemic that inspired many international relations dissertations, prolific political scientist Huntington aims his latest book at domestic affairs. America, he argues, is in the midst of an identity crisis. Immigration, multiculturalism, secularism, and the end of the cold war have led to a watering down of what it means to be American, and at an especially crucial time, when Americanism is under attack worldwide. The solution? Americans need to get in touch with their English-speaking Anglo-Protestant roots, defined in what he calls the "American Creed" and demonstrated through 300 years of cultural salience. September 11 marks, for the author, an opportunity for Americans to come together in reinvigorated nationalism and reinvented American culture. Armed with statistics and historical analyses, Huntington performs significant contortions to successfully avoid seeming racist or intolerant. He remains, however, highly polemic, with sharp jabs at multiculturalism and bilingualism sure to alienate many readers. Brendan Driscoll
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Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (May 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684870533
ISBN-13: 978-0684870533
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.4 x 9.5 inches
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Mark H.

The Nut of the Thing is American Execeptionalism

March 6, 2018

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Superlative as a final work of carefully argued, critically evidenced social science. More timely now (unfortunately) than when it was published. Crucial to overcoming the rampant tribalism of Progressive cultural forces seeking to dismantle what little remains of The Republic, and make us into (ugh) Belgium,or some other such thing.

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A true scholar who accurately probed America as it was in 2004 and is even moreso today

September 29, 2017

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This is the very rare book for ALL Americans to read. Written in 2004, four years before his death, Huntington virtually predicts much that has followed. While to some he may come across as right-of-center, his real aim is to draw out how the USA was, and still is, headed toward a bi-cultural and bi-lingual sociey, which he laments. Informally he gives a timeline writing that America was the most unified under the "American creed" (which he explains) in 1950. His charts on countries of origin of immigrants comparing 1960 to 2000 show the very large impact of the 1965 Immigration Act. He shows this contrast to the very high assimilation of immigrants who arrived from the middle of the 19th century to roughly the 1920s.

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Tim Hoffman

Terrific book. Would recommend it to anyone interested in ...

May 2, 2018

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Terrific book. Would recommend it to anyone interested in what makes us "American" and the effects of recent immigration policy on the American identity. Even if you disagree with Samuel Huntington, he provides a useful framework for debate. I found it to be most useful.

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On the mark and timely many years after it was first published.

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Ricardo

It reflects the American culture. If you wanna know ...

October 13, 2017

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It reflects the American culture. If you wanna know more about the US, this is a book you should read.

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Interesting read

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His analysis of the American identity.

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