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A comment on Will Kymlicka's "Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe" (2001) offers an alternative means of distinguishing the states central to his argument. It is contended that there are different types of states & that nation building assumes different forms. American national culture is described as thin compared to European nation-states, eg, France, which are viewed as having thicker culture. The difference centers on the notion that Anglo-Americans have become minorities in their country, whereas the French will never become so. In this light it is asserted that the thicker the culture the more likely that multiculturalism will take on a more corporatist form where immigrant groups are accommodated as national minorities rather than as "hyphenated nationals." In the US, immigrant groups must work to sustain their own thick culture & cohesion without corporatist arrangements; the most successful are ethnic-religious combinations, eg, Jews, Italian Catholics. J. Zendejas

A comment on Will Kymlicka's "Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe" (2001) offers an alternative means of distinguishing the states central to his argument. It is contended that there are different types of states & that nation building assumes different forms. American national culture is described as thin compared to European nation-states, eg, France, which are viewed as having thicker culture. The difference centers on the notion that Anglo-Americans have become minorities in their country, whereas the French will never become so. In this light it is asserted that the thicker the culture the more likely that multiculturalism will take on a more corporatist form where immigrant groups are accommodated as national minorities rather than as "hyphenated nationals." In the US, immigrant groups must work to sustain their own thick culture & cohesion without corporatist arrangements; the most successful are ethnic-religious combinations, eg, Jews, Italian Catholics. J. Zendejas