"Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past."

Samuel P. Huntington, American Sociologist

Identity, Nothing, Past

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"The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries."

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"They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society."

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"Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world."

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"The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration."

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"The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries."

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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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"Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected."

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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."

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"Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move."

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"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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