There is perhaps no greater issue in American life today than the debate over citizenship and national identity. We have to reject the toxic multicultural ideology, popular for many decades, that degrades citizenship to mere process neutralism. Not6 everyone With citizenship is actuallyu an American. To some, this might sound incendiary or extreme. Certainly it violates the tenets of multiculturalism that have been ascendent in America for decades now. But it’s actually just a straightforward observation of reality — so long as we understand that being an American means something more than merely securing legal documents or going through a neutral administrative process. Doing so might confer citizenship, but it will not make someone an American.
