Kush jane Amerikanet?

[Qafir Arnaut]

S.Huntigton ka perseritur traditen e tij kontroversiale me nje liber te sapo botuar te titulluar "Kush Jemi? Sfidat e Identitetit Kombetar Amerikan"

per nje book review vizitoni: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/200405...-homeland.html

Kam jetuar pothuaj 1 dekade ne US ne te dy brigjet e kontinentit. Pas nje reflektimi personal mendoj se Amerika eshte nje anomali, sidomos ne krahasim me kolonite e tjera te medha Britanike si Kanada e Australia. Ata kane arritur te formulojne nje komb te mirefillte perkunder gjithe gjasave. Ne te njejten kohe ShBA eshte kthyer ne nje perandori te mirefillte. Eshte e para perandori-komb ne historine Euro-Islamike. Te gjithe te tjerat kane qene multi-kulturale (psh perandorite Osmane, Bizantine, Romake, Greke etj). Ne te njejten kohe rivali i Perandorise Amerikane eshte po nje Perandori-komb: Kina. Per mendimin tim dekadat qe do vijne do shenohen per konfliktin ndermjet 'manifest destiny' (Amerikan) dhe 'mandate of heaven' (Kinez). Pra njohja e kombit Amerikan nga ne te interesuarit e ketij forumi, eshte nje domosdoshmeri per te kuptuar se ku po shkohet.

Let the games begin.

[Clauss]

Summary: In Who Are We?, Samuel Huntington turns his formidable intellect to the challenges posed by immigration. Unfortunately, he has abandoned the clear-eyed realism of his past work in favor of disdainful moralism, whipping up nativist hysteria instead of offering real solutions.

ja ka hedhur poshte ai qe ka bere review me argumentat me poshte, qe skundershtohen dot.

[Veshtrusja]

Kush jane Amerikanet?

Amerikanet jane ata qe nenvleresohen si popull nga te tere, por qe ne realitet jan mbi te tere.

[Larsus]

S.Huntigton ka perseritur traditen e tij kontroversiale me nje liber te sapo botuar te titulluar "Kush Jemi? Sfidat e Identitetit Kombetar Amerikan"

per nje book review vizitoni: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/200405...-homeland.html

mendoj se Amerika eshte nje anomali,.

u c'na hapi pune ky, duhet me ble edhe kete tani...
amerika eshte mutante kshu eshte kur ngatarron masat ne gatim (ke jetu noihere ne Jersey ti?)

[Larsus]

Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity


From the Publisher
In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international politics.
His astute analysis has proven correct. Now Professor Huntington turns his attention from international affairs to our domestic cultural rifts as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country. My note: kjo eshte very predictable nga interesat e fundit te huntigton, shkrimet e tij me se fundi per ept 11, clash of civil. dhe c'fare impacti kane mexikanet ne kulturen amerikane ishin prelude e ketij libri

America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants, bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the "denationalization" of American elites.

September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism and a renewal of American identity. But already there are signs that this revival is fading, even though in the post-September 11 world, Americans face unprecedented challenges to our security.

Who Are We? shows the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans. Nothing less than our national identity is at stake.

Once again Samuel Huntington has written an important book that is certain to provoke a lively debate and to shape our national conversation about who we are.



From The Critics
Publisher's Weekly
In his seminal The Clash of Civilizations, Huntington anticipated the United States' battle with militant Islam. Here he turns his laser on America-or, rather, America as he thinks it ought to be. Despite its clinical tone, this book is an aggressive polemic whose central argument-that America, at heart, has been and in many ways should remain a Christian, Anglocentric country-wouldn't be out of place on many a conservative radio station. The author seeks at length to prove that the American Creed, which he defines as a Protestant-influenced ideology modeled on the British system, was the founders' original intent and remains America's best course. He then turns to many of the usual subjects-the imperiled primacy of English, the dangers of immigration and multiculturalism-to make his case. He argues that a growing divide between the patriotic working class and "denationalized elites" will lead to internal fissures. Where those findings can lead is another question. For instance, he predicts, and also expresses sympathy for, a movement of white nativism that "does not advocate white racial supremacy," yet he believes that "mixing of races and hence culture is the road to national degeneration." The book is also marred by a number of self-contradictions; for example, Huntington draws heavily on the founders to make a nationalist case even as he acknowledges that notions of Americanism (as opposed to allegiances to individual states) became popular only after the Civil War. Exhaustively researched and occasionally inspired, this polemic remains more often filled with colorless and ineffectual writing that will provide evidence for the converted but do little to persuade the doubters. (May 27) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews
Scholarly analysis of the American national identity as it has evolved over the centuries, the challenges it now faces, and the choices that lie ahead. Huntington (History/Harvard; The Clash of Civilizations, 1996, etc.) argues that Anglo-Protestant culture, traditions, and values and the principles of the American Creed-liberty, equality, law, individual rights-have made this country what it is. In recent decades he sees doctrines of multiculturalism and diversity elevating racial, ethnic, and gender over national identity, and an increased tendency of immigrants, especially Hispanics, to maintain dual identities rather than to assimilate. The result is an emerging bilingual, bicultural society fundamentally different from the one of the three previous centuries with its Anglo-Protestant, English-language core. Controversies over racial preferences, immigration, and an official language are, he notes, battles in a single war over national identity, with substantial elements of the country's elites in academia (himself not included), the professions, and the media on one side and the general public on the other. Huntington bolsters his analysis with impressive statistics, and he assembles persuasive examples to illustrate the changes he sees taking place. To the question of whether a nation lacking a cultural core can define itself by ideology alone-that is, can America be a coherent nation if the American Creed is its sole source of national identity?-his answer is a firm no. A nation's soul, he states, is determined by a common history, traditions, and culture. As to where we go from here, he sees the world entering a new age of religion, one in which the nation's ideological war withmilitant communism has been replaced by a religious and cultural war with militant Islam. He outlines three possible approaches to the country's role in the world: cosmopolitanism, in which the US welcomes the world, its ideas, its goods, and its people; imperialism, in which the US is the dominant component of a supranational empire reshapes the world; and nationalism, in which the US does not try to eliminate the social, political, and cultural differences between itself and other societies but seeks to preserve and strengthen its own defining qualities. Elites may favor cosmopolitanism or imperialism, but most Americans, Huntington says, are, like him, patriots committed to nationalism. A work of serious intent that is certain to arouse controversy. Agent: Denise Shannon/ICM



Customer Reviews
Shalom Freedman, A reviewer, April 7, 2004, --My note : ky duket qe eshte koke cifuti, nuk i vijne pas avazit idete e Hunt. se lene menjane hirpokrizine (dhe semundjen)cifute -- ky do qe amerika te ishte cifute dhe jo anglo-saksone :

A thought- provoking controversial and ultimately unsatisfying work
I have read only segments of the book, but believe I grasp its main idea i.e. its effort to define the core of American nationalism and vigorously defend this. Along with this is a convincing analysis of the gap between the elites of American society and the great mass of the people, in which the elites are seen as much more marginally attached to American national identity. What is more questionable is Huntington's defining the essence of the American heritage as Anglo- Protestant. This it seems to me is in fundamental contradiction to the message of the Constitution and the founding fathers. As I understand it their message was one predicated on an Enlightentment conception of the universal rights and Nature of Mankind, the rights of life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Their largely Anglo- Saxon Protestant origin was no doubt a formative element in their choosing these values, but these values included a separation of state and church, and no special emphasis on ethnicity . The unique American character of the enterprise was defined by the specific place and society they were part of . In this sense it is almost as if Huntington is regressing and seeking to define the essence of the American enterprise by what it attempted to transcend. The dangers he points to regarding the future of the American polity are no doubt real, and his expectation of Americans loyal to their American national identity, justified, but his effort to define that identity is unsatisfactory

[bebushe]

Amerikonet jan ato qe jetojne ne Amerike

[Pogradecari]

amerikanet si popull jane nje nga popujt me te mire te zgjuar e matur
po me keto lufterat sikur se kane dhe aq mire
rastesisht me vajti remota e kontrollit te televizorit tek nje show "OPRAH" dhe ne ane moment ajo po thoshte qe USA ka bombarduar me bomba 22 shtete dhe filloi ti numeronte te vraret nga keto bomba 2 milion ne vietnam kaq qindra mijeta ketej e andej
drejt me thene se kane dhe aq mire se jane milet nuk jane kumbulla
po mua s'para me behet vone per sa kohe qe nuk bumbardojne shqiperine
se cfare s'pret nga keta sot te kane shok e neser te bumbardojne alla alla xhibilet milet

[Qafir Arnaut]

Ju falenderoj per mendimet por le te diskutojme tezat interesante te Huntigton.
Ai thote qe:

1. Amerikanet perkufizohen nga nje tradite anglo-protestante. Ata jane nje komb i mirefillte
2. Ndjenja tyre kombetare rrezikohet per shkak te emigracionit, sidomos atij Latino-Amerikan, dhe prezences te multi-kulturalizmit. Shkurt nqs gjendja vazhdon sic eshte Amerika mund te ndahet ne nje jug Spanjisht foles dhe ne nje veri Anglishtfoles. Pra mund te kthehet ne nje tip Kanadaje.

Cilat jane mendimet tuaja qofte per ekzistencen apo jo te nje kombi Amerikan, qofte per piken e dyte. A ekziston nje dicka qe mund te quhet nacionalizem Amerikan? Nqs po atehere eshte hera e pare nje 'perandori-komb' ekizton (me perjashtim te Kines)

[AgainstAllOdds]

Amerikanet jane nje popull qe kane nje demokraci te arrire ne vendin e tyre !
USA , eshte shembull ndaj te gjithave vendeve te tjera per te drejtat dhe lirite e individit brenda shtetit te vet , ndersa persa i perket politikes se jashtme , le shume per te deshiruar..! Reputacioni i mire i Usa , ka ra shume kohet e fundit me politiken e saj te felliqur qe po ben ndaj vendeve jo-amerikane !
Per shqiptaret qe i jane drejtuar rrugeve te emigrimit , eshte vendi me ideal per te krijuar nje jete te re !
Rrofte Usa per politiken e bredshme dhe Poshte Usa per ate te jashtme

[marsela]

Amerikanet jane ata qe nenvleresohen si popull nga te tere, por qe ne realitet jan mbi te tere.

amerikanet mbi te tjeret??!!perse??!!se dine te mbledhin dhe shfrytzojne gjithe kokat ??
amerikanet kane ecur perpara ne saje te shfrytzimit te trurit e trullit te gjysmes se botes!skan pare ndonjehere lufte ne tokene tyre,gjithmone kan pare perpara..
per dy gjera i vlersoj,dine ta respektojne njeriun e vet,te drejtat e lirite e tij...(megjithse kur harrojne ato te te tjerve kjo duhet shumzuar me 0)dhe per rendesin qe ijep ,e zhvillimin qe ka marre arti e kultura atje..