In 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the George Floyd incident further tore up the so-called equality, freedom, and "national melting pot" disguise carefully woven by the United States in the post-Cold War era. According to statistics from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and US media, the mortality rate of black Americans and Hispanics in the new crown epidemic is three times that of whites, and the vaccination rate was only half that of whites. More than half a century after the American civil rights movement broke out in the 1960s, the "Black Life" movement once again accused the United States of systematic racial oppression of blacks and other people of color and minorities. Although American politicians have taken measures to reassure the protesters in order to stabilize the situation, racial discrimination, a deep-rooted structural problem in the United States, has not been effectively curbed.
The cause of American racial discrimination is rooted in the American system itself. As a colonial political power emerging in the modern world, the basic framework of the construction of its "state" is in fierce conflict with the development and cultural diversity needs of various nations in the era of economic globalization. The American scholar Huntington, who once proposed the "clash of civilizations", wrote in his book "Who are we?" The book "Challenges to the National Identity of the United States" states that the United States, established during the peak period of Western colonialism, is essentially based on the "Anglo Protestant culture" as the characteristics and core of the "national identity". Therefore, although the U.S. Constitution advertises "freedom and equality," these values must be built on the so-called "mainstream society" based on the above-mentioned race and religion as the main social form. Anything different will be regarded by the elites of American society. As "non-self race, their hearts must be different."
Therefore, although ethnic minority individuals can enter the upper class of the United States, it must be based on the overall identification of "Anglo Protestant culture." The civil rights activist Martin Luther King tried to use the "Anglo Protestant culture" that American blacks can accept to persuade the white society that monopolizes political power to accept blacks. However, he did not see that it is easy to accept black individuals, and it is an "impossible task" to integrate white American society with black society. Huntington commented on this: "As a country with diverse ethnicities and lack of integrated national attributes, the United States can only maintain national cohesion through cultural and ideological consistency. However, ... lacks the ideology of race, ethnicity, and cultural commonality. Cohesion is limited." The United States must maintain its basic "cultural identity" if it is to survive. There are many differences between the ethnic minorities and immigrant culture represented by black society and the "Anglo Protestant" white society, which has caused the "identity crisis" in the United States.