Triinu Lille từ Sartédigos, Ourense, Spain

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2019-02-07 05:30

Vui Chơi Cùng Yu Yu - Tập 6: Yu Yu Nuôi Cá Vàng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Shu Lily

Is patriotism passe? Not so says academic extraordinaire Samuel Huntington. In fact, he thinks that it's essential to the very extistence of the nation state itself. In particular, Huntington sets his sites on America for no other reason than that he's an American and he perceives a profound crisis looming in America's future. Namely, the enormous influx of Mexican and other Latin American immigrants who either refuse to or are unable to adapt to the U.S.'s mainstream culture pose an existential problem. The crisis is that the fact a large percentage of the population is culturally, linguistically, and perhaps politically un(der)assimilated and concentrated primarily in one geographic location has the potential to sunder the country politically, in which case the problems are obvious (Civil War II) or culturally, in which case the problems are, I believe, less obvious. Regardless, I agree with Huntington that more needs to be done to assimilate the Mexican population with America's mainstream culture. Of course, there is a lot of debate about whether this is even a problem at all, and what you think about this issue will determine your opinion of this book. Hungtington is not a right wing nut and this book is not partisan polemics. That doesn't mean this book won't piss you off if you consider yourself far left or right on the political spectrum (to put it simply). But if you are open-minded, this is a good book about the subject of immigration and its potential effects on the country. Hungtington is first and foremost a scholar and his aim is to present his argument with precision and clarity with as much appeal to logic and as little appeal to emotion as possible. However, this book is not without its faults. His emphasis on ethnicities and cultural distinctions propels him to single out militant Islam as the major foreign policy threat for the foreseeable future. Whereas, I, as a dyed-in-the-wool realist, cannot but believe the whole Islamic terror thing is just a blip on the radar as the next great power conflict approaches (U.S.-China?, Japan-China?, China-India?). In fact, Hungtington compares the Communist threat after WWII to the Islamic threat now when he should've contrasted the two. However, I do side with him in that culture and ethnicity are much more powerful forces in the domestic political arena and need to be heeded.

Người đọc Triinu Lille từ Sartédigos, Ourense, Spain

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.