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The U.S. escaped the divisiveness of a multiethnic society by a brilliant solution: the creation of a brand-new national identity. The point of America was not to preserve old cultures but to forge a new, American culture. "By an intermixture with our people," President George Washington told Vice President...
That is the issue that lies behind the hullabaloo over "multiculturalism" and "political correctness," the attack on the "Eurocentric" curriculum and the rise of the notion that history and literature should be taught not as disciplines but as therapies whose function is to raise minority self-esteem. Group separatism crystallizes...
"What the curriculum report tried to do was show how this concern with cultural diversity has been misinterpreted. We have viewed it as a matter of helping people to learn more about themselves and others. The primary reason youngsters need to study multiple cultures is to learn how to develop...
"What we have in common as Americans is a political and social tradition that has created a unique degree of freedom in action and conscience; a society more open to newcomers than any so far known. American law and custom have blended diverse groups more successfully than any other community...
"The reason we don't have the problem that countries like Yugoslavia are having now is that all groups except African Americans have come here voluntarily. And all those cultures deserve to be included in our definition of American. I'm not talking about cultural cheerleading. We have got to...