The Collapse of American Identity
By ROBERT P. JONESMAY 2, 2017
After the British writer G. K. Chesterton visited the United States for the first time, he remarked that America was “a nation with the soul of a church.”
Mr. Chesterton wasn’t referring to the nation’s religiosity but to its formation around a set of core political beliefs enshrined in founding “sacred texts,” like the Declaration of Independence. He noted that the United States, unlike European countries, did not rely on ethnic kinship, cultural character or a “national type” for a shared identity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/opinion/the-collapse-of-american-identity.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
