The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 29th, 2003
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Words of freedom still surprise
By JOSEPH SHIMEK
Sunday, June 29, 2003
As Independence Day approaches, I happen to be engaged in an e- mail debate with an American friend who has immigrated to Europe.
He raised my ire by insisting that America is not, properly speaking, an object of patriotism. He says that it lacks the cultural, linguistic and religious cohesion needed to form a traditional fatherland worthy of patriotic affection. Instead, he contends that America is a multicultural boarding house erected out of convenience, which one can leave with the ease of checking...
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