America’s Patriotic Assimilation System Is Broken

CULTURE & SOCIETY / BRIEFING PAPER

America's Patriotic Assimilation System

Is Broken

John Fonte &

Althea Nagai

April 2013

America's Patriotic Assimilation System

Is Broken

John Fonte, Ph.D. Director, Center for American Common Culture,

Hudson Institute and

Althea Nagai, Ph.D. Nagai Lerner Consulting

April 2013

? Hudson Institute 2013

Tables of Contents

I. Executive Summary............................................................................................ 1 America's Patriotic Assimilation System is Broken............................................ 1 Some Findings.................................................................................................... 1 Some Findings on Multiple-Choice Questions Taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test..................................................................................................................... 2 Policy Implications ............................................................................................. 2 Federal Government Barriers to Patriotic Integration ......................................... 2

II. Introduction....................................................................................................... 4 III. Statistical Analysis........................................................................................... 7

American Exceptionalism and National Identity................................................. 7 Patriotism ..........................................................................................................12 American Citizenship/Dual Citizenship .............................................................13 Attitudes toward English ...................................................................................15 Multiculturalism vs. Civic Assimilation ............................................................18 Attitudinal Distance from Various Groups & Elites...........................................20 Opinions Regarding Civic Education.................................................................21 Civics Test.........................................................................................................23 Political Attitudes ..............................................................................................29 IV. Policy Implications .........................................................................................31 Remove Federal Government Barriers to Patriotic Integration...........................31 Multicultural Assimilation Replaces Patriotic Assimilation...............................32 The "Changing Demographics" Rationale for Multicultural Assimilation .........35 Changing Demographics: 1913 vs. 2013. ..........................................................37 Conclusion: Remove the Barriers to Patriotic Integration ..................................39

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