Why America is not Exceptional Immigration and National
Identity in Europe and the United States Eric Kaufmann,
[email protected]
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Conceptual Frameworks Decline of Dominant Ethnicity Political
Demography
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Jose C. Orozcos Anglo-America
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Anglo-Saxon Ethnic Origins, 1776 Americans: "the children of
Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day and a pillar of
fire by night; and on the other side, Hengist and Horsa, the Saxon
chiefs from whom we claim the honour of being descended, and whose
political principles and form of government we have assumed."
Thomas Jefferson, 1776 (quoted in Horsman 1981: 22, emphasis
added)
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Anglo-Saxon Origins, 1889 "The fathers followed Boon[e] or
fought at King's Mountain; the sons marched south with Jackson to
overcome the Creeks and beat back the British; the grandsons died
at the Alamo or charged to victory at San Jacinto. They were doing
their share of a work that began with the conquest of Britain, that
entered on its second and wider period after the defeat of the
Spanish Armada, that culminated in the marvelous growth of the
United States Theodore Roosevelt, 1889
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Two Traditions The asylum of all nations...the energy of Irish,
Germans, Swedes, Poles and Cossacks, and all the European tribes,
of the Africans and Polynesians, will construct a new race...as
vigorous as the new Europe which came out of the smelting pot of
the Dark Ages - Emerson 1846 It cannot be maintained by any candid
person that the African race have ever occupied or do promise ever
to occupy any very high place in the human family...The Irish
cannot; the American Indian cannot; the Chinese cannot. Before the
energy of the Caucasian race all other races have quailed and done
obeisance Emerson 1846
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1960s Multiculturalism and Reaction I define integrationnot as
a flattening process of assimilation but as equal opportunity,
accompanied by cultural diversity, in an atmosphere of mutual
tolerance- Roy Jenkins, Labour MP & Home Secretary, 1966 We
must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual
inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the
material of the future growth of the immigrant descended
population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping
up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit
unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family
with spouses and fiances whom they have never seen. Enoch Powell,
1968
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White Flight in Europe
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USA, 1970-2000 Source: data from Card, Mas & Rothstein 2008
Source: Andersson, Hammarstedt, Neuman 2012
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Why America is not Exceptional Immigration and National
Identity in Europe and the United States Eric Kaufmann,
[email protected]
