 | Albert Benedict Wolfe - Social problems - 1916 - 804 pages
...inalienable in the life of mankind is its intrinsic positive quality — its psychophysical inheritance. Men may change their clothes, their politics, their...their religions, their philosophies, to a greater or less extent : they cannot change their grandfathers. Jews or Poles or Anglo-Saxons, in order to cease... | |
 | Alfred Zimmern - Citizenship - 1918 - 364 pages
...brief span of human life as a link between immemorial generations, spreading backwards and forwards. " Men may change their clothes, their politics, their wives, their religions, their philosophies," says a Jewish-American writer, " they cannot change their grandfathers. Jews or Poles, or Anglo-Saxons,... | |
 | Isaac Baer Berkson - Americanization - 1920 - 226 pages
...change his grandfather"; and more fully, "Men may change their clothes, their politics, their wives, their philosophies to a greater or lesser extent; they cannot change their grandfathers." Since 'race' is such an ineradicable and all determining element, it is the central fact of any man's... | |
 | Milton M. Gordon - Social Science - 2010 - 288 pages
...being inalienable and unalterable."19 Or, as he had put it even more succinctly in his early essay: "Men may change their clothes, their politics, their...greater or lesser extent: they cannot change their grandfathers."20 Not only is the individual related to his ethnic group involuntarily and indissolubly,... | |
 | InterAmerica Research Associates, Rosslyn, VA. - Education, Bilingual - 1983 - 425 pages
...affiliation. In Kallen's terms: Men may change their clothes, their politics, their wives, their religion, their philosophies, to a greater or lesser extent: They cannot change their grandfathers. (Kallen, 1964) 2. Cultural pluralism is in conformity with the constitutional ideals of democracy,... | |
 | John Shelton Reed - Social Science - 1993 - 148 pages
...be expected to happen very often. As Horace Kallen put it, in a famous essay on the "melting pot": "Men may change their clothes, their politics, their...lesser extent; they cannot change their grandfathers." But if I am right about how Southern identification works these days, to become Southerners outsiders... | |
 | Ruth Anna Putnam - Philosophy - 1997 - 406 pages
...from his belief that "what is inalienable in the life of mankind is its ... psycho-social inheritance. Men may change their clothes, their politics, their...lesser extent: they cannot change their grandfathers" (Kallen 1924, 122). This commitment to the permanence of ancestral endowments immune to cultural and... | |
 | Jack Salzman, Cornel West - History - 1997 - 448 pages
...its prognosis, and essentialist in its definitions ("Men may change their clothes, their politics, ...their philosophies to a greater or lesser extent; they cannot change their grandfathers," Kallen argued in a famous passage in Culture and Democracy in the United States [New York, 1924] p.... | |
 | John Shea - History - 1997 - 423 pages
...in 1915 argued against the "melting pot" method of establishing a nation of immigrants.76 He wrote, "Men may change their clothes, their politics, their wives, their religions, their philosophies: they cannot change their grandfathers, Jews or Poles or Anglo-Saxons. Jews or Poles or Anglo-Saxons,... | |
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Men may change their clothes, their politics, their wives, their religions, their philosophies, to a greater or lesser extent: they cannot change their grandfathers. 
