Posted on 10/16/2017 4:11:35 PM PDT by Hadean
What cultural factors, native to a particular immigrant, increase the odds that they will subscribe to that American identity?
What cultural factors, native to a particular immigrant, decrease the odds that they will subscribe to that American identity?
Nazis are statist, communists are statist. The state tends to address groups collectively, at the expense of individual liberty.
Death to statists of any stripe. Give me Liberty or Death.
Becoming an American truly, requires adopting American culture. I know people from Mexico who dived into American culture without reservation, as well as Vietnamese who did so. The predilection of the individual is what’s most important.
I know what you’re getting at, that Europeans have more in common with us culturally and thus make the transition to American identity more readily. But when I look at Europe these days, I see a lot of spineless statists and Muslims.
Things have changed.
Those Europeans who do have the predilection to adopt American identity do sometimes have an advantage when it comes to language and cultural references, but I don’t see that as a reason to exclude all others who also desire to be Americans. Language and culture can be picked up quickly if the desire and intention are present.
Identity of the nation? I would say that was forged by the DoI and Constitution and the War of Independence those documents arose from.
And those were forged by men whose fathers and grandfathers were from Europe and whom soundly rejected “European culture.” They were mostly 2nd and 3rd generation Americans before there was a United States.
The ultimate rejection of the whole Eurotard culture was the War of Independence.
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