I've had time (and energy) to read half of it and it sounds like one of those 'evident' self explanatory articles-that-you-tend-to-think-everyone-agrees-with-and-is-taught-in-schools but then you realise you're in a tiny minority and everyone else is living in a weird fantasy world of abstractions, labelling and funny colours...
One of the interesting points is the 'racial-isation' of the attacks on the US. Americans are a mongrel nation, YET it seems most of the rhetoric revolves around 'white america' having been attacked by some kind of 'brown muslim' alien world. Are European descendants more American than African or Asian Americans or even the real (remaining) natives? It seems this is sadly true, US society no more ready for democracy than any other society anywhere else in the world. It's, like, in the US, you have:
1) Americans (the 'whites' in the US, in all their shades of 'white' and with no certain rules as to who applies here...) - the name European Americans is not used, by the way. I've always wondered if Italian descendants are in this category... no, serious...
2) Blacks, who have another name - African Americans, so as not to let anyone forget that's where they came from, by God's Will...
3) Asian Americans (anyone who looks slightly like Kung Fu's relative)
4) the Spanish, anyone from down under who speaks Spanish, similar to the 1 billion 'English' from India.
5) Ethnic minorities, as if any other inhabitant who arrived after 1492 were a bloody majority.
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