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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 World Order. Buried deep in its pages was the claim that there is "some evidence" that "resistance to assimilation is stronger among Mexican migrants" than it was among other immigrants to the U.S. But Huntington offered no supporting data...
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 successful assimilation in the past is unlikely to be duplicated with today's Latin immigrants. "This reality," he writes, "poses a fundamental question: Will the United States remain a country with a single national language and a core Anglo-Protestant culture...
...fully agree that the writer is most often responsible for a film’s quality. I find it almost impossible to enjoy a movie based on acting, cinematography or editing alone; alternately, a solid script can salvage even the most scantily budgeted, poorly acted production. As Sam Huntington might say, if films were chili, the cast and crew would simply be ingredients that could only enrich the essential tomato stock of the screenplay...
...think of this column as a pre-emptive strike to stop the same thing from happening again. Huntington's claim that Mexican Americans don't assimilate should not be accepted without challenge. (If George Will quotes from Huntington on Sunday-morning TV, my attempt will have failed.) And the media should stop treating clever but flawed scholarship as if it were Holy Writ, especially if an academic argument seems to question the patriotism of good people. You shouldn't do that lightly, with or without dense footnotes...
...active philanthropist in Los Angeles, serving on the boards of the Huntington Memorial Hospital, the Westridge School and KCET, a public television station...