You simply melt right in,
It doesn’t matter what your skin.
It doesn’t matter where you’re from,
Or your religion, you jump right in
To the great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.
Ooh, what a stew, red, white, and blue.
–Schoolhouse Rock’s “Great American Melting Pot.”
I think the arguably most poisonous phrase in the contemporary lexicon is the phrase “celebrate diversity.” It represents the antithesis of that for which this country stands. The phrase on our the Great Seal of the United States is “E pluribus unum” meaning “one from many.” Al Gore, however, has his own version.
“We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be e pluribus unum — out of one, many.”
Ironically and unwittingly, Gore had exposed the liberal philosophy.
To celebrate diversity is to focus on and emphasize that which makes us different. It’s Balkanization. Liberals are enamored of this corrosive philosophy. They resist all efforts to make English a National language. What they do constantly is pull at the loose threads of the fabric of America in order to cause it to come apart entirely.
America is supposed to be a melting pot, a place for disparate societal groups to come together and form a new and common culture. To “Celebrate diversity” is to prevent that from happening and maintain distrust and enmity between dissimilar segments of society. There are parts of the country in which no one speaks English. My grandparents came to this country with little. They expected nothing other than opportunity. My grandfather was a coal miner, hospital janitor, and assembly line worker among other endeavors. He learned English (it was more than a bit on the rough side) and never looked for a handout. He also immigrated legally. On the street we lived on when I was little we had Italians, Jews, Czechs, white families, a black family and a Hispanic family. The yards were very small so mostly we played in the street and we got along better than many do today. Pacific Street was a heterogeneous homogeneity. My older sister dated a young Hispanic man for a while. He was a Latino but we turned him into Jew. His name was Cepero but everyone called him Shapiro because it was easier to pronounce. He remains a friend today.
Sometimes epiphanies take courage.
In October Angela Merkel made a startling and courageous statement. It was the official recognition of something pretty much everyone on Earth outside of self-absorbed liberals understands.
Multiculturalism is an “utter failure” in Germany.
She said the onus was “on immigrants to do more to integrate into German society” and not try to re-establish their own country in a different venue.
Gutsy. And absolutely correct.
Then last Saturday David Cameron had his epiphany.
Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream. All this leaves some young Muslims feeling rootless, and the search for something to belong to and believe in can lead them to this extremist ideology. The response should be a lot less of the passive tolerance of recent years and much more active liberalism. A passively tolerant society says to its citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone. It stands neutral between different values. A genuinely liberal country does much more. It believes in certain values and actively promotes them. If we are to defeat this threat, I believe it’s time to turn the page on the failed policies of the past … When a white person holds objectionable views – racism, for example – we rightly condemn them. But when equally unacceptable views or practices have come from someone who isn’t white, we’ve been too cautious, frankly even fearful, to stand up to them.”
Yesterday the Trifecta was completed when French President Nikolas Sarkozy added his agreement.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Thursday that multiculturalism had failed, joining a growing number of world leaders or ex-leaders who have condemned it.
“My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure,” he said in a television interview when asked about the policy which advocates that host societies welcome and foster distinct cultural and religious immigrant groups.
But Sarkozy hit one out of the parc:
“If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community, and if you do not want to accept that, you cannot be welcome in France.”
An Iranian who emigrated to England writes of the failure of multiculturalism:
Although the rights are in place, the notion of multiculturalism has started to challenge my idealistic perspectives about the future of diversity in Britain. I am beginning to feel the notion of multiculturalism in Britain is like a mirage in a desert. For a desperately thirsty man, a mirage is a glimpse of hope for water, but the more he runs toward it, the thirstier he becomes, despite the moving image of water existing only as an illusion. Similarly, the mirage of multiculturalism promises cohesion and harmony, while in practice it has created social factionalism and exclusion.
The handwriting is on the wall. But when something is shown to be an absolute failure (see Al Gore, global warming) one can expect liberals to stiffen in their efforts to defend it. Multiculturalism is a failure. It is wrong. No country can survive for long when factions maintain their separateness and resist efforts to meld together for the common good. It is poison for a society for immigrants to come here and demand conditions of the countries they left while demanding the privileges of this country.
One of the best examples of how badly multiculturalism can affect a society can be found in Minnesota and its Somali invasion.
Minnesota Somalis have already begun lobbying to legitimate Islamic law. Somali taxi drivers created a media firestorm in 2007 when they refused to transport people with dogs or alcohol in their cabs. While the this effort was beaten back, the Somali campaign for “Islamic mortgages” was successful. Under Islamic law, charging interest is illegal, so Islamic activists at the African Development Center pressured the state of Minnesota to implement a program that would purchase homes and sell them to Muslims for a higher price, but with interest-free loans. This pandering will likely harm Minnesota’s economy, as peoples of third-world origin are likely to default on mortgage payments.
Minnesota’s denial is palpable. The formation of Somali criminal gangs in Minnesota is called “trying to find identity.”
Minnesota is being transformed into a cold Somalia, complete with the lawlessness that pervades Somalia today. Somalis in Minnesota have become a source of jihadi radicals.
What undoubtedly has American officials concerned is not only that young Somalis are being radicalized and sent to fight in East Africa, but that those left behind are becoming ever more violent. Somali youth often grow up in poverty and broken homes. Since December 2007, at least eight young Somalis are known to have died in gang violence that often mirrors the clan feuds back in Somalia. Somalis are estimated to comprise only one percent of the known gang members in Minnesota, but authorities in Minneapolis take this trend seriously enough to have created a position for a Somali liaison officer. Since Somalis are reluctant to cooperate with police due to their bad experiences in their homeland, that tactic may be rendered ineffective.
Muslim taxi drivers in Minnesota have refused to carry passengers who possess alcohol. They have refused to pick up blind passengers with seeing eye dogs. And of course, making them abide by the rules that apply to all taxi cab drivers would deny them their religious freedom. It’s not as though they didn’t know what the job responsibilities were prior to taking the job and that’s what irritates me. If you don’t want to accept the responsibilities of the job, don’t take the job. Muslims, on the other hand, demand that rules be rewritten for them.
The clueless people of Minnesota are the proverbial frogs being boiled slowly. They are the canaries in the mine.
If you come to this country, you adapt to it. If you want to come to this country to change it to suit you, leave. Better yet, don’t come here in the first place.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.