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American children
Many of my relatives and friends take pride in their enthusiastic
embrace of multiculturalism. I oppose it because it discourages assimilation, and it celebrates cultural differences rather than common values. As far as Cleveland Tea
Party is concerned, one of the core values, that of limited government, is
subverted by uncontrolled immigration that expands the nanny state and dilutes
our cultural fabric. The melting pot is giving way to the societal mosaic, more apt to shatter.
A Canadian contributor to PJ Media, David Solway, eloquently
summarizes “The Scourge of Multiculturalism” (h/t Instapundit):
The argument made by immigration
and refugee enthusiasts, namely that the Western democracies were founded and
settled by immigrants and therefore should continue to welcome newcomers, is
valid only to a point. In the course of time the original settlers created a
national identity, a sense of communal membership in a common world unified by
custom and law. It is that identity that should be preserved. . . .
I am not opposed to
immigration per se, only to ill-advised and special interest
agendas that would weaken and adulterate the stable domestic accords arrived at
over many generations.
To say “we are a nation of
immigrants,” then, is immaterial. We are now a nation of citizens. Skilled
immigrants, properly screened and taking into account real domestic needs,
should be part of the country’s future, but not in multiples that threaten to
dilute a nation’s internal cohesion, not from backward countries whose
inhabitants are all too often uneducated, illiterate and functionally
unassimilable, and certainly not from parts of the world -- in particular, the
Islamic world -- whose history, culture, theology and politics have ranged it
against everything that Western civilization comprises. The plight of European
nations like Germany, Sweden, England and France, sinking into a morass of
civil unrest, criminal violence and legal subversion, should be an
incontrovertible object lesson that multiculturalism is the devil’s gift to a
forgetful and undeserving people.
The congeries of welfare recipients
bankrupting our fiscal resources, inner-city ghettoes of disaffected and
belligerent residents, the array of lawfare plaintiffs, the proliferation of de
facto censorship procedures . . . and the consequent erosion of community
standards are the poisoned fruit of such unstructured immigration protocols --
a scourge prettified under the term “multiculturalism.”
. . .
There is no shame in cherishing and
defending one’s “old country” patrimony and the values upon which civic and
communal life are founded. This has nothing to do with an antecedent
“Eurocentrism” that ostensibly degrades other peoples or with the risible
canard of “white supremacy,” but with the sense of belonging to, for all its
flaws and errors, the greatest civilization ever to appear on earth, a
Judeo-Hellenic-Christian civilization that gave us, among innumerable gifts,
the Bible and the Greek library, the magna carta, the concept of individual liberty, scientific and medical
advances never before seen, and a technological, commercial and industrial
infrastructure that has made life easier for untold millions.
Full essay is here.
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