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" 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. "
Time
America
Best
" 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. "
World
Control
Product
" 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? "
Other
West
Question
" But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation. "
Immigration
Then
Serious
" 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. "
Immigrants
Important
Know
" First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants. "
Immigrants
First Of All
First
" 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. "
Immigrants
Country
Society
" In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world. "
Huge Amounts
Ruled
West
" 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. "
Democracy
Direction
Influence
" 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? "
Japan
Because
Will
" 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. "
Country
Culture
Opportunities
" 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. "
Long
Civilization
Long Time
" Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past. "
Past
Identity
Immigration
" Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation. "
Immigration
Mexican
Now
" Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world. "
Mexico
Relationship
Unique
" Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. "
Partial
Often
Insidious
" 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. "
Just
White
Justify
" The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries. "
Problem
Great
Cooperation
" 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. "
America
Truth
Identity
" 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. "
Universal
Out
Phase
" 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. "
Society
Way
Here
" Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people. "
Immigrant
Half
American
" 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. "
Hence
Less
Truth
" We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms. "
Racial
Ourselves
Ethnic
" Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is. "
World
Well
United States
" 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. "
Revolution
Time
American
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