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Huntington argues that it is during the 1960s that American identity begins to erode. This was the result of several factors: The beginning of economic globalization and the rise of global subnational identities; The easing of the Cold War and its end in 1989 reduced the importance of national identity
- Samuel P Huntington
- 2004
May 22, 2003 · As a scholar of American exceptionalism Huntington is—explicitly and openly—concerned about the political unity and cultural homogeneity of his country in the absence of the existential threat of world Communism.
- Emad El-Din Aysha
- 2003
Apr 12, 2011 · Responding to Samuel Huntington's argument in Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity, this article explores the problematic character of American national identity.
- Carson Holloway
- 2011
May 1, 2004 · In the face of dominant pieties in the academy, Huntington not only takes on a presumably atavistic subject—national identity—but offers an unapologetically traditional interpretation and defense of the concept as most Americans, against their presumed intellectual betters, experience and understand it.
Huntington argues that it is during the 1960s that American identity begins to erode. This was the result of several factors: The beginning of economic globalization and the rise of global subnational identities. The easing of the Cold War and its end in 1989 reduced the importance of national identity.
Aug 26, 2005 · Samuel Huntington suggests in this book that American national identity is threatened by a tidal wave of Latino—primarily Mexican—immigrants who are refusing to assimilate to American “Anglo-Protestant” values, and who are facilitated in this resistance by the erosion of elite support for those very same values.
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Jan 1, 2004 · Huntington believe that the American identity could evolve in one of the following directions: (1) a creedal America, lacking its historic cultural core, and united only by a common commitment to the principles of the American creed; (2) a bifurcated America, with two languages, Spanish and English, and two cultures, Anglo-Protestant and Hispanic
