Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
People have multiple identities.
In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.
The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that cultural identities and cultural antagonisms and affiliations will play not the only role but a major role.
I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.