“The new culture war… is about national identity
rather than religion and ‘transcendent authority.’ It focuses on which groups
the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the
same question as the old culture war: ‘Who are we?’ But the earlier query was
primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how
we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth,
one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest
immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.”— E.J. Dionne, “Culture Wars, Old and New,” The Washington Post, January 26, 2015
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Quote of the Day (E.J. Dionne, on the Old and New Culture War)
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Citizenship,
Culture War,
E.J. Dionne,
Immigration,
Quote of the Day
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