ABSTRACT
The inequalities that persist in the United States play an important role in the existence and persistence of the multiple imaginings of America. Anglo-conformity has taken forms both extremist, in the guise of nativism and eugenics, and pragmatic, in the form of Americanization programs. Eric Kaufmann suggests that the ideological hegemony of Anglo-Saxonism and Americanism was waning as early as the 1930s, and a space for ideas like cultural pluralism was opening up. Huntington's contribution to American intellectual discourse on assimilation and national identity is, in many ways, much more like that made by Horace Kallen then that by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The most significant of dramatic domestic policies was the enactment of the National Origins Law in 1929. Coupled with the depression of the 1930s and World War II, the new immigration policy helped in drastically reducing the number of immigrants.
