Five candidates for sainthood – all Europeans – present an antidote to a national malaise
We Americans are a fiercely nationalistic people – not merely patriotic, but nationalistic. Not only are foreign peoples to be rated to the degree that they resemble us, but those who do not are truly “lesser breeds without the law”. While “un-Italian,” “un-French,” and, say, “un-Dutch” would mean only “foreign” to denizens of those respective countries, “un-American” carries with it all sorts of immoral and dishonest connotations.
