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- Title: Not Necessarily in Conflict: Americans Can Be Both United and Culturally Diverse (Twenty-Fourth Federalist Society Student Symposium, Law and Freedom)
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 280 KB
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In considering whether identity is freedom-limiting or freedom-enhancing, it is important to focus on the interplay between one's identity as an American and one's identity as a member of a particular racial or ethnic subgroup of Americans. Our collective identity as Americans is based on shared values of individual freedom, political democracy, and a commitment to the rule of law. These ideals transcend racial and ethnic differences. (1) They do not, however, eliminate the cultural differences between Americans, nor should they. Unfortunately, however, some commentators on both the political right and the political left have suggested that one's identity as an American and one's ethnic or racial identity are contradictory or incompatible, and that in order to celebrate one, it is necessary to suppress the other. (2)