Who Are We
Who Are We? may refer to: * '' Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity'', a 2004 book by Samuel P. Huntington * ''Who Are We?'' (album), a 1955 recording of Aldous Huxley giving a lecture {{dab ...
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Who Are We? The Challenges To America's National Identity
''Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity'' (2004) is a treatise by political scientist and historian Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008). The book attempts to understand the nature of American identity and the challenges it will face in the future. Describing American identity In describing the American identity, Huntington first contests the notion that the country is, as often repeated, "a nation of immigrants". He writes that America's founders were not immigrants, but settlers, since British settlers came to North America to establish a new society, as opposed to migrating from one existing society to another one as immigrants do. Later peoples who joined the culture present in the original British colonies, already established by these settlers, were indeed immigrants. Many people point to the American Creed as the core of American identity. Huntington defines the American Creed as embodying the "principles of liberty, equality, individualism, represent ...
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