Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.Samuel P. Huntington
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.
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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
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We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
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And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.
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