One of the most significant features of the early 1940's was that it gave rise to a profound reconceptualization of the terms of ethnicized citizenship within the United States. World War II was a moment when an American universalism blossomed, when it was actually good to be an American nationalist, and when difference did not mean discreteness, let alone separatism. As a result of the post World War II era there has been a great leap in the degree to which American thinking about world-domination has consistently foregrounded what some may call a racial situation at home.