The Influence Of Identity Politiccs On American National Identity

Identity politics movements have developed in the United States since the 1960s.Identity politics became the United States a powerful weapon for minorities and mainstream groups to express their demands.However,Identity politics’s emphasis on group differences leads to group identity and group cohesion Catching up with the national identity with a general consensus.With development of economic globalization,Cultural pluralism has become a powerful weapon for characteristic of minorities in the United States that seek identity and acnowledge.Right-wing conservatives in the mainstream group of the United States use the American national belief as an ideological weapon to try to reshape the mainstream culture of the United States.The dominance of the Minority and mainstream groups in the United States creates a gap at the level of identity and an acnowledge.The cohesion of the American national identity is gradually weak.Article consider identity politics as the entry point to explain the national identity of the United States in three ways:the racial dimension,the democratic institutional dimension,and the globalization dimension.The American minority pursues cultural equality with the mainstream group in the United States on the basis of identity differences and identity,the American mainstream the rejection emotions of conservatives in the group have increasing intensity between the mainstream and minorities in the United States;The development of economic globalization and the financial crisis in the United States have intensified the wealth of American society.distributive imbalances,the gap between rich and poor,and the embrace of identity politics by American conservatives to mask the essential problems in the structure of the US economy.Trying to target minorities,more and more Americans are disappointed in the Democratic System of the United States;in the context of economic globalization,Population flows freely,the population structure and proportion of the United States changes,and multiculture dissmination.The national identity of the United States is challenged by multipe identity and cultural pluralism,and the identity of the group is gradually surpassing the national identity.Identity is the key to influencing political choices,and multiple identities and multiculture become a divisive factor in national identity.This article starts from two Aspects discuss reshaping the path of American national identity:a return to civic politics and a return to class politics.The return to civil politics is Huntington And Fukuyama’s main solution to the identity crisis caused by identity politics,Huntington and Fukuyama both leaned toward cultural determinism.The development of cultural pluralism has greatly reduced the possibility.Identity politics has emphasized differences even more.It is a weakening of the reshaping of universal citizenship;Class politics emphasizes reunites social groups torn apart by identity politics,and draws people’s attention Shift to class again,but problems in America’s class structure are hidden.citizen politics or class politics can fundamentally solve the identity politics caused by the United States Identity crisis.