The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America Quotes

“The survival of an ethnic caste-ideal does not alter the general picture of collapsing ethnic boundaries. The immigration of new ethnic diasporas might mitigate ethnic decline somewhat, but—given ecological constraints—
only for a limited period. Over the longue duree, this thesis would suggest that racial boundaries, as with ethnic boundaries, will continue to weaken, thereby generating a symbolically fluid, highly privatized, post-ethnic social environment. The only foreseeable force that could reverse the decline of dominant ethnicity in the United States is an intellectual crisis in which the cosmopolitan paradigm is jettisoned. This
would entail the American cultural elite losing faith in liberty and equality
as the ultimate standards of social progress. In effect, these Enlightenment ideals would need to be superseded as the definition of the Good in America. Such an about-turn would represent a civilizational cataclysm,
rupturing a progressive narrative that is hundreds of years old, a truly post-“modern” development that is nowhere in sight.”
― Eric P. Kaufmann, The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America

“The ultimate disappearance of the Anglo-Protestant ethnie on American soil is by no means assured, but the marked decline in Anglo-American ethnic activity is a phenomenon of world-historical importance. This is so for one reason: namely, that ethnic decline has occurred as a consequence of an explicit ethnic ideology. Other dominant groups have atrophied through a cultural syncretism bred by overexpansion, but no such group has explicitly sought its own dissolution outside the imperialist mode. Indeed, the Anglo-Americans would appear to furnish the first example of dominant ethnic dissolution occurring in the post-1648 age of bounded states.”
― Eric P. Kaufmann, The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America