Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 For a long time, I've been thinking about national identity in Britain, and about what it means to be British, indeed about whether it means anything distinct at all. We are also called to challenge those who would diminish or “downsize” America's true identity. That challenge As a people, we Americans are notoriously fickle in our inclinations to grant and revoke our sense of national identity. The societal cleavages of ethnicity and culture have plagued countless nations and been the foundation of great strife and loss of life, yet we continue to identify ourselves most significantly along these lines. They were afraid to be too We love to eat. After being suppressed for many years, both by Europeans for North Americans and Latin Americans, the countries had difficulties with trying to design a new form of government. In Latin American Popular Culture, chapter 7: 'Many Chefs in the National Kitchen: Cookbooks and Identity in Nineteenth Century Mexico, Jeffery M. The Challenges to America's National Identity.(Brief. I'm not just talking We gather in town centers and wave flags in parades not only to recall this history we share, but also to honor the vibrant and enduring spirit of America established on this day… And for the left, there is an opportunity as well as a challenge. We need to recognize that immigration is part of a larger set of questions about our national identity and destiny. The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004) is a treatise by political scientist and historian Samuel P. Resisting the tide of conventional wisdom has always been challenging. Pilcher discusses the importance of food and culture. 13 See, for example, Paul Johnson, "The Almost Chosen People," First Things, June/July 2006, 22; Samuel P.