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Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity Paperback – Illustrated, December 5, 2005

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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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"Samuel P. Huntington has written a book that poses some of the critical questions facing our nation...[and] tackles these questions with passionate intensity."

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"Huntington has written a compelling book on the virtues that make America what it is."

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"Samuel P. Huntington has written a book that poses some of the critical questions facing our nation...[and] tackles these questions with passionate intensity."

-- Tamar Jacoby,
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"Huntington has written a compelling book on the virtues that make America what it is."

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Korean &#xD5 edition (December 5, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0684870541
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0684870540
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.1 x 9.25 inches
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Samuel P. Huntington (1927-2008) was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard and former chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He authored and edited more than dozen books.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2024
    Great, but not done yet
  • Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2017
    Though a few years old, this is an important and interesting book. It is a bit of a heavy read, requiring focus, because it's by a Harvard Academic, but it is well researched and documented, with a plethora of data and quotes. The book is comprehensive discussion of how the American identity was shaped, how recent events like the unprecedented immigration of millions who do not seek to join the existing culture and how current trends may play out in the future, it should be of interest to every thoughtful American, of whatever political persuasion, who is concerned about the future. Some quotes to provoke your interest: "...the proportion of Christians in America has remained relatively constant. In three surveys between 1989 and 1996, between 84% and 88% of Americans said they were Christians. The proportion of Christians in American rivals or exceeds the proportion of Jews in Israel, of Muslims in Egypt, of Hindus in India, and of Orthodox believers in Russia." P99. "Americanization, Justice Louis Brandeis declared in 1919, meant that the immigrant 'adopts the clothes, the manners, and the customs generally prevailing here...substitutes for his mother tongue the English language,' insures that 'his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here.'...When he has done all this he will have 'the national consciousness of an American.'" P131 "'Classifications and distinctions based on race or color,' the leading black attorney, Thurgood Marshall argued in 1948, 'have no moral of legal authority in our society.'" P147. "23% of Hispanic immigrants were citizens, compared to 69% of non-Hispanic immigrants." P239 "Between 1994 and 1995, applications for citizenship increased by over 75%.... ...the result of two factors.... First... about 3,000,000 illegal immigrants became eligible for naturalization in 1994. ... Second, the vulnerability of government benefits available for aliens became visible in 1994 with California's proposition 187 and the debate leading up to Congresses passage of the Welfare Reform and Control Act of 1996. (I'd add "under Bill Clinton!") These developments threatened to open up a huge gap between the economic benefits available to citizens and non-citizens." P218 "An analysis of welfare use in 2001 by immigrants from a dozen regions and countries showed Mexican immigrant households ranking first, with 34.1% using welfare, compared to 22.7% of all immigrant households, and 14.6% of native American households." p236

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    Author: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2009
    I bought this book just because I wanted to know what an educated conservative thinks. The book ended up as a big surprise. I will be brief about my impressions.

    First at all, it is a great book and I recommend his lecture but with a pinch of salt. S.H. mentions that he tries to write the book as a "patriot" and a "scholar", and both of them can contradict each other.

    S.H. provides an overview of the maturation of american identity, from the colonies up to the collapse of the URSS and massive arrival hispanic immigrants. That is the best part of the book, S.H. is incredible accurate, compares different references and clearly presents how the american identity has been shaped.

    Then, S.H. tries to predict the future evolution of american society. That is the part that I do not like, since I consider he misunderstood hispanic immigration. Also, I dislike how S.H. judges Sept. 11 and the resentment of muslim countries against U.S. From S.H.'s point of view, both events seem to be a blessing, because those events gathered all americans against a common enemy. And finally, S.H. considers human rights as a new decoration from the denationalized "elites". I can guess S.H. was never abused, nor being fired for his opinions; therefore he totally ignores the fact that human rights are not fancy ornaments, but the most basic principles that need to be respected.

    Anyway, as I said at the beginning, the book is great. It is full of historic details and well written. Enjoy.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2016
    I am writing this review on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Election day is roughly two months away. This book was published on December 2005. Almost at the very end of the book you will find the following sentence: "The alternative to cosmopolitanism and imperialism is nationalism devoted to the preservation and enhancement of those qualities that have defined America since its founding". The gist of this book, after a brilliant exposition of what it has meant traditionally to be an American, resides in the quoted sentence. If America is to remain being what made it great, it has to assert and solidify itself through nationalism. The nineteenth century saw the birth of a truly national conscience in America and it was mainly as this inward looking nation that the USA found its preeminent place among the great nations on Earth. Measured isolationism served well the USA. Nationalism and another round of measured isolationism might save it now from an identity crisis that menaces to usher in an implosion. Professor Huntington explains in depth what is at stake in this coming election although the book was published eleven years ago. I ever wanted an elucidation of what it means to be an American and I found it in this book. This important book remains pertinent and is a must read for every citizen that is planning to participate in the upcoming election.
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  • Cesealia
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 2, 2019
    The book looks new
  • Francois Pregent
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2017
    Great book to read to learn about our identity, past and futur.
  • Simon E.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Eine berechtigte Frage, die sich jeder Mensch / jedes Land / jede Nation / jeder Staat stellen muss.
    Reviewed in Germany on July 20, 2015
    Wer sind wir?
    Diese Frage stellt Huntington in den Raum und versucht, diese in 4 Kapiteln zu ergründen und - zumindest für die Vergangenheit - zu beantworten. Die Gegenwart (das Buch ist von 2004) lässt sich noch erahnen, aber die Zukunft ist unklar. Fakt ist, die USA (und eigentlich alle Staaten der Welt) unterliegen einem Wandel, und zwar einem grundlegenden, alles verändernden Wandel.
    Die Veränderung der Bevölkerungsstruktur begreift Huntington in sofern als Problem, als dass durch sie neue Lösungsansätze gefunden werden müssen, wie man diese neue Struktur zusammenhält. Es fehlt mehr und mehr der "Leim", der Menschen in einem Staatsgebilde zusammenfügt. Sei es Rasse, Religion, Sprache, "Kultur" (wie auch immer man diese definiert) oder Nationalismus / Ablehnung eines gemeinsamen Gegners.
    Diese Frage müssen sich auch europäische Staaten stellen, auch Deutschland. Denn auch wenn das Buch nur auf die USA fixiert ist, lassen sich viele Rückschlüsse daraus ziehen, was für Probleme auf Europa noch zukommen werden. Probleme, die zum Zerfall der Staaten führen (können) wie wir sie kennen.

    Meiner bescheidenen Meinung nach ein wichtiges Buch, das jeder politisch denkende Mensch gelesen haben sollte.
  • 西
    5.0 out of 5 stars リベラリズム・自由主義に潜む危険
    Reviewed in Japan on December 31, 2010
     著者サミュエル・ハンチントンは「文明の衝突」など世界的に知られた政治学者。
     彼自身もまたリベラリスト・自由主義者。しかし彼はこの本(鈴木主税訳でダイヤモンド社から邦訳名「分断されるアメリカ」で出ている)のなかで、自由主義に潜む重大な危険を指摘している。それは社会や国民国家の統合という問題と、それにおよぼす自由主義の無知という問題の危険性を述べている。
     これはアメリカのみならず、日本にとっても考えるべき重大な問題である。安易な自由主義や一見すると人道主義的な見解が、長い期間にわたって蓄積された社会統合のための知恵や要素をを破壊することを指摘している。 島根M
  • BCsNader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on September 16, 2017
    Very interesting book