Samuel P. Huntington

Some Westerners... have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions? ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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