Monday, July 4, 2016

Independence and Identity: What Israel Knows, Europe Has Forgotten, and America May Yet Remember

Loss of national identity by White Occidentals--"Hitler's Revenge."





Tragically, reclamation of national identity may well be a lost cause in several European states.  But it is not yet lost in America.  The feelings of gratitude and appreciation for being American, and of understanding what America has meant to ourselves and to the wider world, still run deep in much of the population, in spite of prevailing cultural antipathies toward such attitudes.  But those sensibilities are endangered by insufficient transmission of American identity from one generation to the next and are in dire need of reinforcement.