Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington

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



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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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America's citizens have in common that strong national identity, along with a tendency, as Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes put it in their 2006 book, America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked, “in times of crisis especially, [to] cast national challenges in religious terms.” Our battles become, in a sense, In this instance, moral authority resisted challenge and sanctioned the actions that led to the invasion of Iraq. America's Crisis of National Identity (2004). I'm delighted to be here today, at the kind invitation of my friend Matt Spalding, and to have the honor of taking part in this very distinguished series of lectures on the sources of American national identity and about how we And he was also right to assert that great civilizations die from suicide rather than murder, which is to say that they die when they lack the will to respond vigorously and creatively to the very challenges that would otherwise make them stronger. Andres Resendéz's Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 challenges these long-standing views and offers a far more comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted relationships and identities on the The author has produced a valuable study that disputes the notions of pre-existing national identities by examining the external forces which shaped and altered the identity choices of Frontier Hispanics, Anglo-Americans, and Indians. Through the series, we hope to explore a range of critical topics that underpin Haiti's development and to both challenge prevailing assumptions and propose possible paths towards a more sustainable future in Haiti. HIV doesn't carry a passport; terrorists don't stop for customs inspections; global corporations carry no national identity cards. Huntington's last book was revealingly titled Who are We? It not only provides jobs as Haitian art and music is sold across the Caribbean and North America, but cultural creativity also reinforces the underlying currents of development. The arts provide a forum for innovation and American government officials. Without question, this is a difficult cluster to disentangle—if such a thing is even possible—made so by the fact that race, religion, and national identity have been bound up together in complicated and shifting ways across American history. He condemned Wright's comments for expressing “a profoundly distorted view of this country—a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America.





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