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Cultural america is under siege. and as the soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.
-Samuel P. Huntington
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Samuel P. Huntington
Cultural america is under siege. and as the soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.
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