That is, they have tended to be white, Western European, and male. But that is not the whole story. The younger generation of academics generally are more radical than those of an earlier generation. Some traditional assumptions are now heatedly debated in the Academy. The U.S. national culture actually includes Western European, African, Hispanic, Native and Asian Americans, among other ethnic groups, and even these ethnic categories define cultures in rather broad terms.
Some scholars believe it makes little sense to talk about a common culture.
Others believe that the growing emphasis on the nation's multicultural heritage threatens the nation's very existence. Everyone deserves a say , for the customs, beliefs and principles that have unified the U.S. however imperfectly, for more than two centuries are being challenged with a ferocity not seen since the Civil War. There have always been and always will be struggles over the interpretation of the past. This is because we use the past to interpret and justify ourselves. D.C. The Enola Gay is the B-29 aircraft which dropped an atomic bomb in 1945 on Hiroshima, Japan.