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

ISBN: 0684870541

ISBN13: 9780684870540

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In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international politics.

Now in his controversial new work, Who Are We?, Huntington focuses on an identity crisis closer to home as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country.

America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture, says Huntington, including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, our national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants and challenged by issues such as bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the "denationalization" of American elites.

September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism and a renewal of American identity, but already there are signs that this revival is fading. Huntington argues the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans. Timely and thought-provoking, Who Are We? is an important book that is certain to shape our national conversation about who we are.
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Customer Reviews

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Rated 5 stars
Packed With Knowledge!

If this provocative book does not generate controversy, it will mean something truly dreadful is filling the headlines and news broadcasts. Author Samuel P. Huntington is willing to say flat out that the white, Anglo-Protestant culture of the United States was important and valuable, and is now endangered. Yet Huntington is not mired in some white-washed past. He's a respected political scientist with an endowed chair at Harvard...

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Thoughtful and Well-Sourced

Who Are We? is both thoughtful and opinionated in a well researched, annotated, sourced and documented way. The main themes are:1. We are a nation that started as a group of dissenting English Protestant settlers who believed that one's Salvation was dependant on one's own actions and that success or failure was the responsibility of the individual through his own hard work. 2. We are a religious people, both historically...

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What the elite don't want to hear...

Franklin's quip "if you don't listen to reason she will surely rap your knuckles".....comes to mind when reading this book. As with "Clash Of Civilizations" Hunting methodically points out trends the elite don't want to hear- they would rather embrace abstract notions like "the end of history". In "Who Are We" Huntington illustrates how American identity is eroding - and how this is pushed by an elite who by and large are...

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A Conservative with a Conscience

When I told friends in 1999 that I had read Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations", they called it a crazy and far fetched book. We then had 9-11 and people were told to better understand the issue they should read "Clash of Civilizations". One of the American trends today is that we look at our investments, policies, etc on short term trends. We also have a trend that states any new idea that goes against the grain of our...

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As insightful as "Clash of Civilizations"

Back in 1993, Huntington's seminal article in Foreign Affairs "The Clash of Civilizations" was prescient about the violent clash between Islam and the West. It better explained the causes of 9/11 than most books written after 9/11! Now, Huntington's focus has turned inward to the changing identity of American society. He considers that the demographic explosion of Mexicans within the U.S. is causing a Clash of Civilizations...

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