A Common History
April 9, 2010 - 3:59 pm
Without a common history what then do those who comprise a nation have in common.
Two ideas are laid our very clearly as the primary means of developing a sense of national unity and identity. The first is war. The second is oppression. The early settlers, Huntington points out, more readily identified themselves more as individual settlements rather than colonies unified. It was not until the Revolutionary War that group cohesion began to foster. Whether it was the War of Jenkins’ Ear, the French and Indian War, or the many World Wars, each of these conflicts brought along with them a sincere coming together of all for a common goal to face a common enemy.