First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
From Samuel P. Huntington
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
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