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...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...
...article is an extract from Who Are We?, a forthcoming book by Huntington that celebrates the importance of that Anglo-Protestant culture to American identity and attacks those who supposedly undermine it. The book is right to stress that the destiny of Mexican Americans is central to our future. But if you are going to claim that Mexican immigrants don't want to be Americans, your argument had better be watertight. Despite many statistics, Huntington doesn't make his case...
...Diplomatic Hole MEXICO The rescue of six British cavers trapped for a week in flooded caverns provoked a diplomatic spat between the Mexican and U.K. governments. The British Ministry of Defense denied Mexican news reports that the men were looking for uranium, and said they were part of a military caving association on a training exercise. Mexican authorities detained all 13 members of the expedition for questioning...
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE MTV (!) forced the band to cut a scene with a girl mouthing the words to its song Mexican Wine because, said an MTV rep, "we never allow underage drinking...