The Adequate Study Of Culture, Our Own

No One Culture Has Ever Developed All Human Potentialities; It Has Always Selected Certain Capacities, Mental And Emotional And Moral, And Stifled Others. Each Culture Is A System Of Values Which May Well Complement The Values In Another.

Our National Experience In Americanizing Millions Of Europeans Whose Chief Wish Was To Become Americans Has Been A Heady Wine Which Has Made Us Believe, As Perhaps No Nation Before Us Has Ever Believed, That, Given The Slimmest Chance, All Peoples Will Pattern Themselves Upon Our Model.

In A Day Of Footloose Movements Of People And Of Mixed Marriages In The Ancestry Of The Most Desirable Elements Of The Community We Preach Unabashed The Gospel Of The Pure Race.

The Mere Fact Of Leaving Ultimate Social Control In The Hands Of The People Has Not Guaranteed That Men Will Be Able To Conduct Their Lives As Free Men. Those Societies Where Men Know They Are Free Are Often Democracies, But Sometimes They Have Strong Chiefs And Kings.they Have, However, One Common Characteristic: They Are All Alike In Making Certain Freedoms Common To All Citizens, And Inalienable.

The Peoples Of The Earth Are One Family.