ABSTRACT
Increasingly over the past quarter-century, more and more Americans have come to wonder if American citizenship really means anything anymore. They have seen civic education disappear, and pride in country too often seems to be almost an embarrassment to many. The danger for America–the greatest inspiration for the world, yet itself falling into civic and political disintegration–remains poignantly real. In one part of the speech, Bill Clinton addressed Americans’ fears of the runaway levels of immigration. The president of the United States did not try in any way to clear up the multicultural demographic demagoguery behind the statements: that racial categorizations are themselves obnoxious and un-American, and that they are also false. Essentially, the group broke down into two modes of thinking about American citizenship. Multiculturalism, which developed out of Marxist thought in American universities from the 1930s on, remains in force in most institutions in the country.
