A non-Western America cannot be American, but a truly multicultural world is unavoidable

Evidence

Some Americans have promoted multiculturalism at home; some have promoted universalism abroad; and some have done both. Multiculturalism at home threatens the United States and the West; universalism abroad threatens the West and the world. Both deny the uniqueness of Western culture. The global monoculturalists want to make the world like America. The domestic mulitculturalists want to make America like the world. A multicultural America is impossible because a non-Western America is not American. A multicultural world is unavoidable because global empire is impossible. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 890

Categorization

• APHORISMS: “A multicultural America is impossible because a non-Western America is not American. A multicultural world is unavoidable because global empire is impossible” — a genuinely aphoristic formulation about identity and empire.