>Yoshie Furuhashi:
>> >> Deliberate anachronism on the part of H & N, but suggestive
>> >> nonetheless. American Nationalism = an ideology for the Empire.
>
>Gordon says:
>> >However, if the frontier encounters a numerous and advanced
>> >people, then the resultant assimilation will be ambiguous.
>
>Yoshie Furuhashi:
>> One result of ambiguous assimilation is Americanization of politics
>> worldwide. ...
>
>I was thinking of the that ambiguousness of assimilation
>wherein the assimilator acquires many of the characteristics
>of the assimilated.
You mean the promotion of "multiculturalism" & the like in education, management, etc.?
Yoshie