Multiculturalism -- the notion that everyone is actually the same and will fit right in -- is palpably absurd. It disrespects the new person, his history, his reality, his personality. Bringing in unlimited numbers of people disrespects the society into which they are coming -- no society can absorb that many totally different peoples. Witness Europe and Islam. Witness California and its overwhelming Hispanic numbers. This becomes, then, no melting pot, but a boiling pot and a roiling sea of unassimilable numbers that leads to the breakdown and anomie of society.
Professor Putnam delayed publishing his findings because he found them so shocking he felt he had to wait until he could offer some answers to the problem. There already is an answer. It is called common sense, and its handmaiden is human nature.
A liberal finally gets it, and even admits it. Western Civilization must actually be dead for this to happen.
Gigi is a real babe! I remember her on Washington week in Review. You may also be able to see her on CSPAN Booknotes in their archives when she wrote “Guerilla Prince” about Fidel Castro. I read the book because I was a fan of HERS, not Castro. She is well informed and very experienced in her field. If she criticized Bush in Iraq I’ll take those opinions seriously even if i disagree. She is NOT a liberal but a very charming intellect.
it took a major newspaper like The Boston Globe to ferret out this "downside of diversity."The Globe has also been publishing the broadsides against the global warming demagogues, for which, bravo!