The Atlantic

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• This is because America itself is "almost a religion," as the Catholic philosopher Michael Novak once put it, particularly for immigrants, who come to their new identity with the zeal of the converted. The American civic religion has its own founding myth, its prophets and processions, as well as its scripture - the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and The Federalist Papers. (查看原文)

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• An American who moves to Germany, lives there for years, and learns the language remains an American an "expat." If America is a civil religion, it would make sense that it stays with you, unless you renounce it. As Jeff Gedmin, the former head of the Aspen Institute in Berlin described it to me: "You can eat strudel, speak fluent German, adapt to local culture, but many will still say of you Er bat einen deutschen Pass-He has a German passport. No one starts calling you German. " Many native-born Americans may live abroad for stretches, but few emigrate permanently. Immigrants to America tend to become American; emigrants to other countries from America tend to stay American. (查看原文)

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