combination of democracy plus libertarianish ideas about freedom from government intrusion. Nowadays you hear much less about all of those.
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The freedom and constitution memes are mostly restricted to boomer conservatives, and nearly everyone else not in the alt-right just
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talks about equality and racism. Nonwhites especially have little interest in absolute freedom of speech, among other American Values.
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So if being American doesn't have much to do with American Values anymore, what does it mean? Does it mean your ancestors have been here for
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generations or that you share DNA or personality characteristics with most Americans? Do you even need to know English?
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Or does it just mean that you were born here or that your immigration paperwork is in order? And if it's just the latter, what's the point?
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Unless we come up with a compelling definition of what it means to be American, the open borders crowd will continue winning.
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Many of us do have ideas about this (I'd start with DNA), but so far the general public hasn't accepted anything in particular.
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Let's hope so
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