Got it the other day doesn ' t seem to make any difference when it comes to battery drain here . <| sep |> Basically , I think you ' re in agreement with Huntington nations are cultures and not contractual agreements . My concern with this is that it gets difficult to define what exactly the limits or central practices of that culture are . That ' s where multiculturalism comes in . In his lengthy argument , Huntington lays out an AngloProtestantism he states is essential to American culture until the 1970 s or so . Immigrants came from diverse backgrounds but they assimilated to this core culture with Catholicism , Judaism , and other originallyminority religions famously having to deal with Americanization . Only with mass Mexican immigration has the US had an immigrant community large enough and close enough to its home country to maintain separateness in various measures of assimilation he cites language , most obviously . Huntington warns this is a new phenomenon and should not be mistaken as similar to immigration of the past which was more diffuse and disconnected from homelands . With regard to Christianity , Americans have always been way more religious than comparable nations , and he suggests this impacts the socalled American Creed he calls Protestantism without God . The creed is basically a belief in individualism , capitalism , egalitarianism the US has never had the class cultures evident in the UK or some other states , and populism . He identifies the source of the creed as the common ground of dissenting Protestants mostly sharing an Englishspeaking background . I don ' t think any of this has much to contribute to radical Christianity , though . We are not called to serve a state or further a particular nationalist cultural agenda . The idea of a national culture functioning as a kind of Godless pseudoChristianity seems more of a threat to us than something we ' d want to support .