Je n ' ai pas d ' abonnement au Monde malheureusement donc je ne peux pas . C ' est pour cela que j ' ai mis l ' article en anglais qui me semble intressant mme si j ' en conviens pas optimal pour un forum en franais . <| sep |> If we had only spent that time actually enacting changes to secure our bordersHaven ' t you heard , we can ' t secure our borders according to the cosmopolitan church . <| sep |> Yes , we are all hyphenatedAmericans but we are all Americans . We can have our different , often quite different communities , and still be American through and through . The rest of the world put a much larger emphasis on Ethnicity on their national identities . ie the IndiansPakistanis that were born and raised in England aren ' t see as English the North Africans that are born and raised in France aren ' t seen as true French . The Turks born and raised in Germany aren ' t German and the future children of Muslim immigrants that are born and raised in their host countries will not be see as true members of their host nations . America has its own issues with race politics put every single American citizen is just as American as the next , regardless of their Ethnicity . America is communitarianistic , as you mentioned , but because that is our pluralistic identity , one can be both assimilated and pluralistic at the same time . It would be akin to every teenager wanting to be unique , but ultimately end up being the same as every other unique teenager . they are all different from one another , yet still the same . Every snowflake is unique yet its still just snow . It is a fundamental difference between the old world and the new old world is defined by homogeny the new world is defined by pluralism . In the question of which is different Square , Circle , Triangle , Dog . old world mentality is that they are all different , because they are not all squarecircletriangledog new world mentality is that dog is different because its not a basic geometric shape . edit By not not seen as EnglishFrenchGerman I am referring to Ethnicity , not nationality .