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A confluence of factors, Huntington writes, makes contemporary Mexican immigration fundamentally different from past immigration. If allowed to continue at its current levels, and without improved assimilation, he argues, Mexican immigration threatens to create a “bilingual and bicultural” America with a massive ethnic bloc that...
To be sure, Huntington’s thesis is not unassailable. He is, in my view, unduly pessimistic about the capacity of the melting pot to work for Mexican immigrants. There seems little historical or social-scientific merit to his contention that intrinsic “Mexican values?...
The immigration question is inseparable from any such debate about American identity. It is a frequent (and annoying) conceit of pro–immigration liberalism that pro–immigration conservatism is an oxymoron. Such conservatives support an agenda that serves the long-term interests both of immigrants themselves and...
Here is a tale of the academy that, if you follow its trails, will lead you to learned journals, dense footnotes and multivariate regression analysis. But stick with it. In 1996 Samuel P. Huntington of Harvard University published his enormously influential book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of...
Well, he has now. In an article in Foreign Policy magazine, Huntington argues that the nature of Latin American--and especially Mexican--immigration to the U.S. distinguishes it from prior waves. "Many Mexican American immigrants," Huntington claims, "simply do not appear to identify primarily with the United States." Huntington says...