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Entry: Further Notes on Nationalism Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/further_notes_on_nationalism#23486 Post contents: The view that America was a hodgepodge of various nationalities and was not comprised of a distinct American nationality would have been deemed preposterous prior to Emma Lazarus. It has been remarked that up to just past the Civil War a distinctly American character and type was being formed. The massive post Civil War immigrations (which included all my American ancestors) suspended the process for several generations. Only under this condition was an ideologically rooted America postulated to assuage the political feelings of more recent and differently tribed European arrivals and their descendants. So is a nation's true nationality and character rooted only in its dominant ethnicity? Is there an American character, and if so, from whence does it spring? Sent at: 2008 11 23