practically flooded with the American flag after September 11, 2001. The author then quotes Rachel Newman, a young woman, who tells how she has become a patriot on September 11th. Before, she would have identified herself as a “musician, a poet, an artist… a woman, a lesbian and a Jew” (p.3), however after the incident, she calls herself “a patriot” and wears the American flag on her backpack (p.3). This leads into Huntington’s claim that the “challenges to the salience of American national identity from…
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