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...many Americans even realize that when the U.S. took the land in the Southwest, there was a large Mexican population there which was promised full citizenship under the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty? How many Harvard students know that in the 1930s, the U.S. government contracted Mexican laborers to build the railroads, to mine the coal mines and to work the fields of the Southwest? In 1954, Congress made this program...
...applaud these trends, because they stand in healthy contrast to the shamed repudiation of Africa and everything African that dominated our thinking as recently as a generation ago. It was not until the civil rights movement set us on the still unrealized path to first-class American citizenship that we could feel proud enough of ourselves to embrace an ancestral homeland that had long been equated, in our minds and those of whites, with backwardness and degradation...
...patriotism of the Yugoslav partisans in World War II. It exaggerates the number and prowess of the Serb forces in Bosnia today, as well as their local support. For them patria is a Greater Serbia in which Croats, Albanians, Hungarians, Macedonians and Slavic Muslims are subject to second-class citizenship, if not "ethnic cleansing...
...news people. MacArthur knew that entrenched powers would try to muzzle him. "I am told in effect I must follow blindly the leader -- keep silent -- or take the bitter consequences." It helped too that he was not a politician: "I have been impelled as a patriotic duty of simple citizenship -- and a disagreeable duty it has been -- to expose for public consideration the failures and weaknesses, as I view them, which have brought our once righteous and invincible Nation to fiscal instability, political insecurity, and moral jeopardy at home and to universal doubt abroad...
Schools, labor unions and other institutions that once educated young people about voting have also fallen down on the job. In a 1989 survey of 1,006 youths by People for the American Way, only 12% rated voting as a basic tenet of good citizenship. "There's a whole generation of people growing up who should be our future leaders but who are very disaffected, and that's scary," says Cohn...