Posted on 06/08/2016 7:50:08 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The history of nations is mostly characterized by ethnic and racial uniformity, not diversity.
Most national boundaries reflected linguistic, religious and ethnic homogeneity. Until the late 20th century, diversity was considered a liability, not a strength.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
In California uncontrolled immigration has resulted in high crime, deteriorating infrastructure, poor schools, and a lack of housing.
All immigration needs to stop. It is a burden on the people and enough is enough.
Stop all immigration for one generation, then resume at 1/8th the current rate.
We need to catch our breath as a culture, and as a country.
California is among those on the front lines. While their problems are bigger than most, they are not alone in sharing the misery of uncontrolled immigration. Both legal and illegal. We need to have a pause and weed out the bad actors and then return to controlled immigration.
Another great column by Victor Davis Hanson. Thanks for posting.
Diversity takes a back seat to unity, Davis says.
While I definitely agree that E Pluribus Unum is vital to the future of the United States, I’m not sure it can argued that national homogeneity has been that infrequent in creating successful national identity.
The Swiss have endured centuries of citizens divided between French, German, and Italian stock. Germans and Italians never thought of themselves as such until the 1800s when the various smaller entities like Saxony and Prussia, or Venice and Naples ame together. In fact the entire European continent has been a constantly shifting patchwork of new nations replacing old.
Let’s not let that happen here.
These days, if you say “I’m proud to be an American,” you’ll be attacked.
Diversity is still a liability for any culture!
“These days, if you say “I’m proud to be an American,” you’ll be attacked.”
I read your comment and thought, “only someone living behind enemy lines would say such a thing.”
I clicked on your profile, and sure enough...
I left California ten years ago and moved to America. Texas, to be exact. I don’t know a single neighbor who isn’t proud to be an American, and most are even prouder to be a Texan.
Grin. Good for you.
Here we are defiantly American. In the deepest of deep blue neighborhoods.
Hope I see a bit of purple dawn breaking.
The Federalist #2
Independent Journal
Wednesday, October 31, 1787
[John Jay]
“...Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.
This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties..”
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It is an orchestrated invasion, not “immigration”.
The Leftists planned to “kill God” (Christianity) in the late 1800s and the Cultural Marxists knew that to collapse culture (civil society) you needed to destroy Wisdom of the Ages (no transmission of culture to the little kids-—just hyper-sexualize them and destroy intellectual pursuits-—addict them to programming units (Common Core is Neo-Marxist/Neo-Freudian (sexist) indoctrination which begins at age 5 to literally destroy critical thinking and embed hatred for white heterosexual males and Christian Ethics and the ideology which created the USA.
That about sums it up.
Thanks for posting.
Most other countries prior to that were mergers of different nations
Ancient Germanic tribes were mostly bands of warriors and when they formed a "nation" it was with different ethnicities underneath. Example the hunnic empire consisted of Huns as rulers with Germanic warriors and Slavic farmers. The Germanics took over the Gauls and became French, ditto for the Turkic bulgars who were subsumed by their slavic peoples
The Italian Roman Republic lasted about 500 years. In contrast, the multiracial Roman Empire that after the Edict of Caracalla in AD 212The Roman Republic was already multi-racial from the time before the Punic wars -- in fact right to the dawn of the founding of Rome: Rome was a mix of Etruscan and Italic peoples and culture. Then, the Latins conquered Greek peoples in the south (Magna Graecia or greater Greece was the southern part of Italy + Sicily).
Then they conquered the Etruscans, another non-Italic peoples
Then they conquered the Gaullish peoples in Cisalpine GAul (the north-western part of modern-day Italy) and the Celto-Iberian people in Spain -- Emperor Trajan (98 AD to 114) was ethnically Spanish, as was Hadrian.
The Italian Roman Republic lasted about 500 years. In contrast, the multiracial Roman Empire that after the Edict of Caracalla in AD 212The Roman Republic also lasted for about 500 years up to 27 BC, followed by the Principate until 300 AD, followed by the DOminate. The Roman Empire didn't collapse due to multi-racialism.
What was true then is true now. Diversity destroys.
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