What? Please explain this assertion...or share whatever you're smoking...
Gosh, you only forgot to add the entire public school system, the courts, and the United States Senate!
Gosh, you only forgot to add the entire public school system, the courts, and the United States Senate!
In the late 20th century, both components of American identity have come under concentrated and sustained onslaught from a small but influential number of intellectuals and publicists. In the name of multiculturalism, they have attacked the identification of he United States with Western civilization, denied the existence of a common American culture, and promoted racial, ethnic, and other subnational cultural identities and groupings. They have denounced, in the words of one of their reports, "systematic bias toward European culture and its derivatives," in education and "the dominance of the European-American monocultural perspective." The multiculturalists are, as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. has said, "very often ethnocentric separatists who see little in Western heritage other than Western crimes." Their "mood is one of divesting Americans of the sinful European inheritance and seeking redemptive infusions from non-Western cultures."
What is there about it that is not true? Have these intellectuals and publicists vanished overnight? As far as I know, they're still 'teaching' in the nations' educational system in overwhelming numbers. When I turn on my TV, there are still nothing but ratchet-jawed mental and moral midgets spewing and leering and sneering their contempt of folks just like you and me on every lamestream media channel.
Wow. Please back this statement up.
But Huntington doesn't have in mind only Left and Right dihotomy. As it always was in history, it's also East and West. Your screen name is a good example, Khan Tokhtamish.