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American nationalism has slipped into a state of relative disunity during this century, Professor of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer said yesterday in a panel on "Nationalism and the Politics of Identity...
...would be just 30 years ago that Nathan Glazer and I finished Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City. There were then two dominant expectations about ethnicity in America. The 'liberal expectancy' suggested a fading of differences into a common civic culture. The Marxist expectation was that class would obliterate background distinctions of every kind. Glazer and I argued that ethnic attachments would grow more, not less, pronounced. It may help to know that the present tumult was anticipated. It may also help to know -- and teach -- how much the cast...
Harvard professor Nathan Glazer recommends George Washington's warning against foreign entanglements as a motto for the U.S. in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Patrick J. Buchanan contends that the reds were the only bad guys worth fighting; as soon as they are licked, the U.S. should "disengage" from all remaining messes across the oceans. Ted Galen Carpenter advocates "strategic independence . . . free from the dangerous and expensive burdens of obsolete security commitments." Jeane J. Kirkpatrick sees a chance for the U.S. finally to become a "normal country in a normal time," turning inward to deal with its many...
THIS REJECTIONIST POSTURE seems all the more irrational when one considers America's inclination toward tolerance and inclusion. As Harvard sociologist Nathan Glazer has observed, the American polity has "been defined by a steady expansion of the definition of those who maybe included in it to the point where it now includes all humanity...
Well, not quite. But Glazer's broader message is right on the mark: the American experience has been characterized by a gradual but continuous acceptance of different people. When the Student Senate at Southern Methodist University moves to prohibit anti-gay harassment, then the rest of America can't be far behind...