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Entry: The Lie of Assimilation Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_lie_of_assimiliation#8879 Post contents: The belief that the Third World is some kind of model of virtue is an idea that has long been at the heart of the New Left that came on the scene in the 1960s. It is of course related to the left wing notion of the noble savage or the virtuous primitive, the natural man free of the contamination of civilization and its institutions. Any conservative of course rejects that idea. John Lukacs wrote the following concerning the relation of the European world to the Third World. QUOTE: For more than one hundred years after the establishment of the United States most Americans saw themselves as representing something that was opposite of the Old World and its sins. After about one hundred years this gradually transformed: the United States was the advanced model of the Old World…perhaps of the entire world. Neither of these visions is meaningful any longer. Will the American people have the inner strength to consolidate, and to sustain, the belief that their civilization is different not from the so-called Old but from the so-called Third World, and not merely its advanced model? At the beginning of the third century of American independence that is or rather ought to be the question. UNQOUTE Sent at: 2008 07 24