American - Sociologist | April 18, 1927 - December 24, 2008
But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
Samuel P. Huntington
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
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We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.
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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
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