{"id":12139,"date":"2020-01-15T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12139"},"modified":"2020-01-14T12:25:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T20:25:43","slug":"american-citizenship-is-eroding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/american-citizenship-is-eroding\/","title":{"rendered":"American citizenship is eroding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Highland County Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, many condemn the idea of nationalism by connecting it to race hatred (e.g., white nationalism). But historically, the modern nation-state has proven uniquely suitable to preserving individual rights. The American nation in particular was successful in uniting individuals of different races, ethnic backgrounds and creeds into one people based on shared principles, a unique physical space, and a common national story. Our nation is the best example in human history of positive nationalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key to this benign nationalism is American citizenship, based on an understanding of American exceptionalism and formed by the American melting pot. But today, our citizenship is eroding and, along with it, American nationalism in the positive sense is disappearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American citizenship is eroding in three ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, we are blurring the line between mere residents and citizens. We have between 45-50 million non-native-born residents in the U.S. today\u2014the largest absolute number we\u2019ve ever had. There\u2019s no legal problem with the 30 million of them who have green cards or have acquired citizenship\u2014although even 30 million is a challenge for the American melting pot to assimilate and integrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we also have, according to a recent Yale and MIT study, about 20 million people who are here illegally. In regard to them, the classical ingredients of American citizenship\u2014the right to leave or enter the country as one pleases, for example, or to vote in elections, or to reside here as long as one pleases\u2014are being blurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highlandcountypress.com\/Content\/Opinions\/Opinion\/Article\/American-citizenship-is-eroding-\/4\/22\/54820\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Highland County Press Today, many condemn the idea of nationalism by connecting it to race hatred (e.g., white nationalism). But historically, the modern nation-state has proven uniquely suitable to preserving individual rights. The American nation in particular was successful in uniting individuals of different races, ethnic backgrounds and creeds into one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-39N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5590,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/from-nationalism-to-fascism-to-terror\/","url_meta":{"origin":12139,"position":0},"title":"From Nationalism to Fascism to Terror","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 4, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Parallels between Germany and the Arab World by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers On occasion, one finds a historical pattern that provides a paradigm useful for interpreting contemporary world events.\u00a0 One such paradigm is the almost eerie parallel between Germany\u2019s history \u2014 its progress from Nationalism to Fascism and ultimately Terror\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Raymond Ibrahim&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Raymond Ibrahim","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/our-contributors\/raymond-ibrahim\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12228,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/globalization-bleeding\/","url_meta":{"origin":12139,"position":1},"title":"Globalization Bleeding","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review By\u00a0the early 21st century, cosmopolitans were gushing that high-tech, instant communications, transnational agencies and agreements, free-flowing capital, international corporations, and a new eerily uniform global elite had, finally, made nationalism, borders, and even the nation-state itself all irrelevant. 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