Assimilationist confidence collapsed as its economic and security foundations failed
Evidence
Most of the foundations of the age of confidence had already been rudely shaken. One of them, indifference to social problems, had cracked in the eighties. A second basis of confidence, easy expectations of endless material expansion, was challenged by the restrictions of monopoly, the passing of the frontier, and the experience of grinding depression. When a wave of jingoism swept over the old indifference to international problems, the principal conditions upholding the assimilationist faith of the post-Civil War period were all in peril. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 454
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Survival-of-the-fittest ideology collapses when ruling security is threatened — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 474; Anti-immigrant solidarity collapsed almost instantly when the anarchist threat faded — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 660; Soviet ideology’s global appeal collapsed when its economy stagnated — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 252
Broader Connections
- Survival-of-the-fittest ideology collapses when ruling security is threatened
#corroborates(0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 474 - Anti-immigrant solidarity collapsed almost instantly when the anarchist threat faded
#exemplifies(0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 660 - Soviet ideology’s global appeal collapsed when its economy stagnated
#corroborates(0.78) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 252