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Hispanic immigrants threaten US culture, Harvard professor says
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Hispanic immigrants, a majority of them of Mexican origin, threaten to divide US culture by not swiftly seeking assimilation, says Harvard University professor Samuel Huntington in a new book out.
Mexican-Americans make up more than 60 percent of all 40 million US Hispanics, the largest cultural minority in the country of 280 million.
"There is no Americano dream," Huntington writes in "Who are we?" "There is only the American dream created by an Anglo-Protestant society. Mexican Americans will share in that dream and in that society only if they dream in English."
"In this new era, the single most immediate and most serious challenge to ... traditional (US) identity comes from the immense and continuing immigration from Latin America, especially from Mexico," he said.
"The cultural division between Hispanics and Anglos could replace the racial division between blacks and whites as the most serious cleavage in US society," he suggested.
Huntington bases much of his argument on what he says is Hispanics' slower assimilation than other immigrant groups in the past, slower embracing of English and living in mostly Hispanic neighborhoods.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040302/ts_alt_afp/us_mexico_latam_040302180651
Weet bewijst Huntington dat het een grote xenophoob is en zijn theorien lijken verdacht veel op de theorien van de Nazi's. Hispanics zijn blijkbaar niet in staat om de "amerikaanse droom" van Anglo Protestantse Amerikanen te begrijpen.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040302/ap_on_re_us/immigration_flap_1
Harvard Prof Gets Flak for Hispanic Theory
By MARTIN FINUCANE, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON - A Harvard professor whose theory on the "clash of civilizations" became prominent after Sept. 11 is drawing fire with a new thesis — that Hispanics are not assimilating into the U.S. mainstream, creating the possibility of a nation of "two peoples, two cultures and two languages."
Samuel P. Huntington, chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, said the trend could forecast "the end of the America we have known for more than three centuries."
"Americans should not let that change happen unless they are convinced that this new nation would be a better one," he writes in the current issue of Foreign Policy magazine.
Huntington argues that immigration from Mexico is different from other immigration waves for a variety of reasons, including Mexico's proximity to the United States and the sheer scale of legal and illegal immigration from that country.
"Demographically, socially and culturally, the 'reconquista' (re-conquest) of the Southwest United States by Mexican immigrants is well under way," he writes. "This trend could consolidate the Mexican-dominant areas of the United States into an autonomous, culturally and linguistically distinct, and economically self-reliant bloc within the United States."
Critics pounced on the theory.
"This is really sad because this is the kind of thing we expect from xenophobes," said Rodolfo O. de la Garza, a professor at Columbia University, adding Huntington's analysis "has just gone nuts."
Gabriela Lemus, policy director at the League of United Latin American Citizens, said Hispanic immigration to the United States during the 1990s was "really phenomenal," and rejected Huntington's assumption the immigrants had come to "divide and conquer."
"I do believe that, while we may not be assimilating at the same rates as we have in the past, little by little we are assimilating," she said.
Huntington's 1996 book, "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order," received wide attention after the Sept. 11 attacks with a theory that global politics would be dominated by "the clash of civilizations," raising the specter of a Western civilization headed for conflict with other cultures like Islam.
Huntington was out of the country and wouldn't be commenting until his new book, "Who We Are," is published, said his assistant, Beth Baiter.
A spokeswoman for Simon & Schuster Inc. didn't immediately return a message seeking comment. Neither did a spokesman for Harvard.
Er is dus blijkbaar een grootschalig complot gaande door Mexicanen om de VS te veroveren, en dat van een belangrijke geachte Harvard professor. Ik hoop dat mensen nu eindelijk doorkrijgen hoe gevaarlijk hij en de mensen die hij vertegenwoordigt daadwerkelijk zijn. Wellicht dat de volgende "terrorische" aanslag het werk zal zijn van hispanics.
Tue Mar 2, 1:06 PM ET Add U.S. National - AFP to My Yahoo!
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Hispanic immigrants, a majority of them of Mexican origin, threaten to divide US culture by not swiftly seeking assimilation, says Harvard University professor Samuel Huntington in a new book out.
Mexican-Americans make up more than 60 percent of all 40 million US Hispanics, the largest cultural minority in the country of 280 million.
"There is no Americano dream," Huntington writes in "Who are we?" "There is only the American dream created by an Anglo-Protestant society. Mexican Americans will share in that dream and in that society only if they dream in English."
"In this new era, the single most immediate and most serious challenge to ... traditional (US) identity comes from the immense and continuing immigration from Latin America, especially from Mexico," he said.
"The cultural division between Hispanics and Anglos could replace the racial division between blacks and whites as the most serious cleavage in US society," he suggested.
Huntington bases much of his argument on what he says is Hispanics' slower assimilation than other immigrant groups in the past, slower embracing of English and living in mostly Hispanic neighborhoods.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040302/ts_alt_afp/us_mexico_latam_040302180651
Weet bewijst Huntington dat het een grote xenophoob is en zijn theorien lijken verdacht veel op de theorien van de Nazi's. Hispanics zijn blijkbaar niet in staat om de "amerikaanse droom" van Anglo Protestantse Amerikanen te begrijpen.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040302/ap_on_re_us/immigration_flap_1
Harvard Prof Gets Flak for Hispanic Theory
By MARTIN FINUCANE, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON - A Harvard professor whose theory on the "clash of civilizations" became prominent after Sept. 11 is drawing fire with a new thesis — that Hispanics are not assimilating into the U.S. mainstream, creating the possibility of a nation of "two peoples, two cultures and two languages."
Samuel P. Huntington, chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, said the trend could forecast "the end of the America we have known for more than three centuries."
"Americans should not let that change happen unless they are convinced that this new nation would be a better one," he writes in the current issue of Foreign Policy magazine.
Huntington argues that immigration from Mexico is different from other immigration waves for a variety of reasons, including Mexico's proximity to the United States and the sheer scale of legal and illegal immigration from that country.
"Demographically, socially and culturally, the 'reconquista' (re-conquest) of the Southwest United States by Mexican immigrants is well under way," he writes. "This trend could consolidate the Mexican-dominant areas of the United States into an autonomous, culturally and linguistically distinct, and economically self-reliant bloc within the United States."
Critics pounced on the theory.
"This is really sad because this is the kind of thing we expect from xenophobes," said Rodolfo O. de la Garza, a professor at Columbia University, adding Huntington's analysis "has just gone nuts."
Gabriela Lemus, policy director at the League of United Latin American Citizens, said Hispanic immigration to the United States during the 1990s was "really phenomenal," and rejected Huntington's assumption the immigrants had come to "divide and conquer."
"I do believe that, while we may not be assimilating at the same rates as we have in the past, little by little we are assimilating," she said.
Huntington's 1996 book, "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order," received wide attention after the Sept. 11 attacks with a theory that global politics would be dominated by "the clash of civilizations," raising the specter of a Western civilization headed for conflict with other cultures like Islam.
Huntington was out of the country and wouldn't be commenting until his new book, "Who We Are," is published, said his assistant, Beth Baiter.
A spokeswoman for Simon & Schuster Inc. didn't immediately return a message seeking comment. Neither did a spokesman for Harvard.
Er is dus blijkbaar een grootschalig complot gaande door Mexicanen om de VS te veroveren, en dat van een belangrijke geachte Harvard professor. Ik hoop dat mensen nu eindelijk doorkrijgen hoe gevaarlijk hij en de mensen die hij vertegenwoordigt daadwerkelijk zijn. Wellicht dat de volgende "terrorische" aanslag het werk zal zijn van hispanics.