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Samuel P Huntington Quotes
A partial truth, on the other hand, is plausible, because there is evidence to support it. And hence, it is easy to assume that it is the total truth. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
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. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions? - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isnt really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
But we have to recognize the limits on our power and the fact that our ability to bring about changes in other societies is, is declining. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that were not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
First of all, we havent always welcomed immigrants. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
For much of our history we defined ourselves in racial, religious, ethnic, and cultural terms, as well as in propositional or creedal terms. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
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. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China? - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
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. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
Since the new wave of immigration as a result of the 1965 changes, overall emigration appears to be somewhat lower than earlier in this century. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
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. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
The West hasnt 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. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
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 Quotes
They werent immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
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. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
Well, I think as far as China is concerned, its the economic dynamism of China, which has already made China more assertive in world affairs. - Samuel P Huntington Quotes
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