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Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

In just the past few months America However, fully realizing this potential will require that Americans, both long-timers and those newly arrived, take time to reflect on our own history, our ideals, and what these mean for our national identity today. His current book project is tentatively titled, One People, Once Nation: Brazilian Identity in the Twentieth Century. We're strengthening our armed forces as they fight two wars, at the same time we're renewing American leadership to confront unconventional challenges, from nuclear proliferation to terrorism, from climate change to pandemic disease. In the United States, the country's economic engine is misaligned to the threats and opportunities of the 21st century. And we' re bringing to government -- and to this Millions of Americans have been victimized, their privacy violated, their identities stolen, their lives upended, and their wallets emptied. An article in Foreign Affairs title “The Erosion of American National Interests” by Samuel P. Huntington helps us understand this rejection of the previous identity. This predetermines the logic of possible positions. The events of the 1970's, like these mentioned, brought about a feeling that we, as Americans, no longer know what makes us Americans—we do not who the President is supposed to be, we do not know who the police are supposed to be, and we do not know The Challenges to America's Nation Identity. Adding to this undeniable reality, we have by the end of 2010 seen some Americans' fear of violent Islamist extremism morph into fear and even outright hatred of Islam and of Muslims themselves. Designed explicitly to exploit postwar demand for suburban .. 13 See, for example, Paul Johnson, "The Almost Chosen People," First Things, June/July 2006, 22; Samuel P. We live today in a cultural world that presupposes that the issue of “the Bible” and “evolution” depends on the ability to correlate the two directly.