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...Newcastle; Miller, by contrast, brought to Europe things it was less accustomed to seeing: naked appetite, hopeless high spirits, French spoken with a Brooklyn accent. And what he brought back was something even richer: the great French passions -- of love and talk and food -- translated into a rough Anglo-Saxon vernacular. Joie de vivre made American...
Furthermore, the oppressive effects of Western thought on nonwhites is not as clear-cut as most multiculturalists assume. Certainly, many past immigrants were encouraged to ape their "betters," as the parlance then called them -- to model their speech and demeanor on the dominant examples of white Anglo- Saxon Protestants, some of whom, in turn, were trying to imitate the British aristocracy. But this imperative belongs to the transient domains of fashion and snobbery, and in any case sycophancy is not unique to America or to Western societies. Harder to grasp is the way in which Western principles discriminate against...
...20th century, new immigration laws altered the composition of the American people, and a cult of ethnicity erupted both among non-Anglo whites and among nonwhite minorities. This had many healthy consequences. The American culture at last began to give shamefully overdue recognition to the achievements of groups subordinated and spurned during the high noon of Anglo dominance, and it began to acknowledge the great swirling world beyond Europe. Americans acquired a more complex and invigorating sense of their world -- and of themselves...
...means individuals seeing endless opportunities. But there is also the negative side of manifest destiny, which is aggression and achieving goals at the expense of others. That less-than-glorious background has to be acknowledged and recognized. Why? Because we can no longer be defined by how the white Anglo majority wants to see us -- as stereotypes...
...definition of American. I'm not talking about cultural cheerleading. We have got to teach children that all cultures have value. Yes, we have to talk about the Founding Fathers -- but we also have to talk about women's role, African Americans' role. This was not just white Anglo-Saxons who fought in the Revolution; it was Americans of all races, colors and creeds. We're not putting down anybody. Instead of a spotlight on one group, we want a floodlight on many cultures...