Judge Not: Don’t let disagreements lead to disdain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eranda Jayawickreme ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Refugee Policy ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Displaced Populations ◽  
American Way ◽  
The Impact

“I’m all for helping refugees, but some cultures just don’t fit with the American way of life.” So said my airplane seatmate a few years ago. He and I were in a heated discussion—should the United States admit more refugees from war-ravaged Syria? As someone who has done research on how forcibly displaced populations cope with the impact of political violence, I had strong views on the topic. Of course, a degree in psychology does not make me a specialist in the complexities of refugee policy in my adopted country. I couldn’t rattle off statistics or deeply informed analyses of resettlement issues. Yet my first instinct when hearing my seatmate’s claim was to challenge him. And, in the back of my mind, to judge him.

Discussants' Reactions

1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-129
Author(s):  
James Bowen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
The United States ◽  
American People ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Way

The past few years have been particularly troublesome for the American people, not the least of the worries being a concern with the Russian challenge to the American way of life. The incredible successes of the Russians in orbiting satellites and exploding nuclear weapons has been both a disturbing and a sobering thought to the United States, long secure in its isolation and power, and in the belief that it was the best society on earth. More than a decade ago an enduring Pax Americana based upon the unilateral possession of the atomic bomb disappeared; with the launching of various Sputniki since 1958 morale has dropped even lower.

Cornish Emigrants and America

1959 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 4-11
Author(s):  
John Rowe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Considerable Contribution ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
American Way ◽  
Geographic Remoteness

Among the immigrant groups which made a considerable contribution to the development of the United States and of the American way of life the Cornish people must be reckoned. Older accounts of the mining, camps of the Pacific Coast actually enumerate the “Cornish nationality” among the races that thronged to the gold and silver diggings. Yet, throughout the nineteenth century, British, census returns reveal that there were rarely more than a third of a million Cornish folk in the “old country”, and after 1861 their numbers declined. Yet this people impressed themselves upon the American scene, even on some of its most superficial observers, and this for a variety of reasons, apart from the local provincialisms created by geographic remoteness and physical difficulties of communication in the homeland until well into the “railway age”.

scholarly journals Paleoconservatism and the Issue of Immigration and Multiculturalism

Ad Americam ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Barbara Machnik
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Open Borders ◽  
The Future ◽  
Positive Meaning ◽  
American Way ◽  
American Society

This article deals with paleoconservative attitudes toward the issue of immigration to the United States and the problem of multiculturalism and assimilation on American soil. Representatives of paleoconservatism present these phenomena as a significant threat to the American way of life. Their words are filled with anxiety for the future of American society, which is instilled with the positive meaning of the idea of open borders, and which is becoming permeated with alien cultures and losing its own cultural identity. Starting with an explanation of the essence of the American nation’s homogeneity, this article presents the threats which come with the ‘mixing’ of cultures and liberal immigration as well as phenomena directly linked to such immigration, namely the problem of terrorism and Islam.

Loos, Adolf (1870–1933)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Kotte
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
International Style ◽  
American Way

Born in Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic, Adolf Loos was a critic, architect and designer famous for his vehement rejection of ornament. Educated in Dresden, Germany, he lived in the United States from 1893 to 1896 and developed a lifelong admiration for the American way of life. In 1896, he moved to Vienna, where he practiced for the longest period of his life. Loos’s main contribution to Modernism was, however, in the realm of theory and writing. In a 1908 essay entitled ‘Ornament and Crime’ he claimed that ‘the evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of daily use’ (Bock and Loos: 167) Although his functional, rectilinear boxes such as Steiner House (1910) were met with little enthusiasm at the time, Loos’s buildings appear to anticipate the International Style of the 1920s as well as Le Corbusier’s (1887-1965) architectural purism. The stark exteriors of Loos’s work contrast with their sumptuous interiors, clad in rich woods or marble.

ARE MEXICANS IN THE UNITED STATES A THREAT TO THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE?

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogelio Saenz ◽  
Janie Filoteo ◽  
Aurelia Lorena Murga
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Latino Population ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
American Way ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Contemporary Context

The Latino population has grown significantly over the last few decades in the United States and population projections suggest that the number of Latinos will increase disproportionately, relative to other immigrant groups, in the coming decades. These trends have resulted in great concern among some who fear that Latinos, especially Mexicans, are not acculturating and assimilating into mainstream, White America. Fears of the “browning of America” and of Latinos' presumed threat to the American way of life have led some to call for measures to ensure the preservation of America's national identity. Samuel Huntington is the latest public figure to make such claims. This paper provides an overview of Huntington's claims as well as the responses that his work has drawn from supporters and critics. Using data from the 2000 5% Public Use Microdata Sample, we assess the validity of Huntington's claims by examining the extent to which Mexicans, the largest Latino subgroup, have integrated into the United States, basing our assessment on a variety of selected demographic, social, and economic indicators. The results suggest that Mexicans have integrated in various dimensions, with the level of integration increasing with length of residence in the United States. We conclude with a discussion of the historical and contemporary context in which Mexicans have been racialized in the United States.

scholarly journals Ochrona amerykańskiego stylu życia jako wartości w strategii cyberbezpieczeństwa Stanów Zjednoczonych

2021 ◽  
Vol Online First ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Brzostek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
A Value ◽  
American Way ◽  
National Infrastructure ◽  
Trump Administration

The National Cybersecurity Strategy of the United States of America, issued in 2018 by the Donald Trump administration, indicated as the first pillar, among others, preserving the American way of life. The article aims to present the American way of life as a value that binds Americans, becomes symbols of America and at the same time is one of the political slogans of the Republican party. The American way of life consists of a number of features, including human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and association are legally protected, including in cyberspace. According to Trump, the development of the Internet has made one of the greatest advances since the industrial revolution, enabling great advances in trade, healthcare, communications and every element of the national infrastructure, and the United States aims to uphold the principles of protecting and promoting open, interoperable, reliable and secure Internet.

The Popular Sources of American Capitalism

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-457
Author(s):  
Joyce Appleby
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
American Capitalism ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
The Impact

Long ago, Louis Hacker noted the anticapitalist bias in American historiography. The tendency of capitalism, particularly marked after the advent of industrialization, to concentrate wealth and to turn that wealth into political power suggests the problem. The Declaration of Independence with its twinned affirmation of equality and liberty provided the ideological underpinnings for national unity. Both seemed threatened during the long transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy as the rich got richer and more and more of America's free citizens were exposed to the unfreedom of the workplace. Progressive historians who systematically analyzed the impact of industrial capitalism in the United States wrote out of sympathy with labor in its struggle for recognition, and no doubt Hacker was thinking of this tendency when he made his remark. This anticapitalist bias in the writing of American history has continued, only now historians decry the steady incursion of commerce and industry out of deference to a traditional way of life.

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