I can't blame Immigrant-Americans for their alienation from American Culture, but they have no real stake in preserving it.
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The "hyphenated-american experience" is their Tradition, which they uphold more than they investigate, say, American Literature.
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We are all told that we are all equally "immigrants" to America, that none of us belong here, & old-stock America is a myth.
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Folks like Emerson, or Poe, or Hawthorne, Melville, Pynchon etc are from families who had been in America for nearly centuries.
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To say that this lineage represents a more "authentic" America than the immigrants of the 19th/20th century is forbidden today.
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This is extremely unfortunate, but don't fall for the ethnats who claim that the historically Anglo-American culture = "white" or "European"
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@Outsideness has noted; America was always WEIRD; it was NOT an interchangeable culture with Continental Europe at all!4 replies 2 retweets 27 likes
Its hard for american nationalism to be honest about the american lineage. The trap is too perfect, unlikely Alt Right can climb out
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