By Eric Kaufmann
The impression of liberal globalization and multiculturalism implies that countries are stressed to remodel their nationwide identities from an ethnic to a civic mode. This has led, in lots of situations, to dominant ethnic decline, but in addition to its peripheral revival within the type of a ways correct politics. whilst, the expansion of mass democracy and the decline of post-colonial and chilly struggle country solidarity within the constructing international has opened the floodgates for assertions of ethnic dominance. This e-book investigates either traits and argues forcefully for the significance of dominant ethnicity within the modern international.
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Before that, most WASPs thought of themselves as the nation, as ‘just plain Americans’, not as just another ethnicity. Another factor cross-cutting all religion and ethnicity in the post-modern United States is the gender revolution of the 1970s. The rise of WASP and other women to positions of political and economic prominence has, to some extent, been at the expense of WASP men. But affirmative action has tended to favour ethnic groups which support women’s education and that has meant WASPs, Jews and Chinese, but not Hispanics.
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