Chocolate ice cream, for example, takes chocolate, cream, and sugar. The ingredients that have created America as we know it are being gradually replaced. Group rights and privilege make a mockery of the constitutional rights of the individual. But the greatest variety of assault is launched against our common American identity, that magnet that binds all of us together. Our existence as a nation depends on it because the people of this country converged, and continue to converge, from every corner of the globe.
Identity is about being similar and being different.
Since Nature has made every one of us different, we have to agree about those aspects of our lives that will make us similar. Our common language, English, took the place of a uniform culture. In place of a state religion, a Bible-based morality was taken for granted. It is these ingredients that distinguish us from other societies, and enable those who sweep the floor today to split the atom tomorrow. Today, our nation's leaders are engaged in choosing a path to pursue.