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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
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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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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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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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They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
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We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
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We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
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