the hispanic challenge
October 4, 2005 – 11:43 amoh and don’t forget the ‘Hispanic Challenge’ - our loving kind and very thoughtful friend mr. huntington’s other controversial book, written after the C of C.
” The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Latinos have not assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture, forming instead their own political and linguistic enclaves—from Los Angeles to Miami—and rejecting the Anglo-Protestant values that built the American dream. The United States ignores this challenge at its peril.”
the good thing about this book is that display’s clearly mr. huntington’s biases and frankly his rather fascist tendencies. ( not that wasn’t apparent to any clear thinker who read the clash of civilizations - but there you go - the problem with that book was really it fed lot’s of people’s prejudices- thats really why it was so popular, if we’re going to be brutally honest )
p.s. the link takes you to the article in ForeignPolicy magazine from March 2004. you know how our friend writes articles and then turns them into books. really you do have to give him credit on his money-making capabilities.
in any case the other amusing thing is mr. huntington clearly doesn’t actually know any history. and frankly, he’s a bit obsessed with the ‘founding fathers’. anyway even if he was right about america’s ‘founders and settlers’ - who gives a shit anymore? how can it be democratic for him to say –oh ye young ones, we must stick to tradition and what the founding fathers wanted. damn - they arent around anymore, and if you want to pretend you live in a democratic country - then you’re gonna have to deal with who’s there, not with who’s dead. come out of the mausoleum and check out the changes.
fundamentally what it comes down to- if you don’t like change you’re fucked. you can try and make everything static - but frankly it ain’t static. the world isnt static, cultures arent static, they’ve all been changing and mixing even if people like to pretend they live in non-permeable rigidly bounded boxes which have been around forever.