“Testing Huntington: Is Hispanic Immigration a Threat to American Identity?”
Authors: Jack Citrin, Amy Lerman, Michael Murakami, and Kathryn Pearson
Journal: Perspectives on Politics, Issue: March 2007
Samuel Huntington argues that the sheer number, concentration, linguistic homogeneity, and other characteristic of Hispanic immigrants will erode the dominance of English as a nationally unifying language, weaken the country’s dominant cultural values, and promote ethnic allegiances over a primary identification as an American. Testing these hypotheses with data from the U.S. Census and national and Los Angeles opinion surveys, we show that Hispanics acquire English and lose Spanish rapidly beginning with the second generation, and appear to be no more or less religious or committed to the work ethic than native-born whites.Moreover, a clear majority of Hispanics reject a purely ethnic identification and patriotism grows from one generation to the next. At present, a traditional pattern of political assimilation appears to prevail.
[Texto completo en: http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/PerspectivesMar07Citrin_etal.pdf ]
El texto refuta el texto de Huntington, "The Hispanic Challenge", publicado en la revista Foreign Policy (marzo-abril 2004) en el que dice:
"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"
El texto completo de Huntington puede verse en:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/gems/culturalagency1/SamuelHuntingtonTheHispanicC.pdf]
2 comentarios:
Samuel Huntington es un lamentable personaje que está realizando una feroz campaña no "anti-inmigracionista", como se pudiera pensar, sino anti-hispana, cualquier cosa que "hispana" quiera decir. Aquí se da la mano con otro personaje lamentable como Lou Dobbs, el proteccionista y antiglobalizador que denuncia la manera en que los trabajadores del Tercer Mundo (sin salir siquiera de sus paíse, gracias al "outsorcing") estás haciendo perder sus empleos a la clase media de Estados Unidos. El lema de Giacosa, Dobbs, Huntington y otros "antiglobalizadores" puede ser el mismo: "Chauvinistas de todos los países, uníos".
Newt Gingrich también acaba de mostrar su lado antihispano. Quizás esta sea su parte de su plataforma política que le dará réditos entre los conservadores
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/31/gingrich.bilingual.ap/index.html,
Saludos
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