Show thes the S surest urb st step to toward wiard the lb lodged n ged for fo future brotherhood of man by PROF ALBERT E JENKS in dearborn independent ONG Q life which is so essential if nationalisms are arc to be built on LOK demor memories acs ics wo we have not had our american nationalistic memories are only years while one third of our people have no american can group memories but have hare conic come to america from groups group most of which in europe or asia are arc roughly 10 1000 00 icare acar s ol 01 old d another of our difficulties is due to tile the fact that w we e a arc r a not a homogeneous people cither a single ethnic group or a well amalgamated folk we are arc heterogeneous to the ext extreme renic a wo we have no indigenous american lin language 0 guage 0 america uncil 0 most moet of tile the independent nationalistic groups in europe or asia has a borrowed tongue and tin this s Engli english sli language which we commonly speak is as yet not so 0 o common but that millions million s of our residents cannot use or understand it As to tn a nationalistic rei religion c ion we have none the fundamental law of our laud forever separates church and state when I 1 we consider tho the tremendous P power ower religion has exerted in the deiv civil i I 1 life of peoples the thoughtful 0 man must ponder at the possible outcome m e of the of america today to offset our serious difficulties in tile the maturing of american nationalisms we possess three dominant assets the first is our geographic isolation fortunately far from the historic hatreds and fears of european groups tile alio second is a gripping environment which eventually will mako make u us s nil all americans by breaking those who will not bo be made at american neriman ne rican i tho third is such vital idealistic liopo hope for a realizable future in america as no nation before has held field out to individual men As americans we are interested in the development and maturity of american nationalisms first because we are arc confident that tile ideals of our american nation hold a great wealth of unique blessing for her citizens and second because we believe the constant attempt to perfect her democratic idealism is the surest step toward the longed for future brotherhood of nf man |