[LauraleeBraswell]

Wait, This is the New York Times? Am I reading this right? Do I need glasses?

[Mr. Mojo]

NYT requires registration.

Would someone post the entire article?

[goldstategop]

I was reading an article by Henry Chu, the Los Angeles Times correspondent in Israel about "Hatikvah," the Israeli national anthem today. What I was struck by was how it was a refutation of the multicultural nonsense about submerging identities into an undifferentiated, pluralist mass. The point of the article was that national identity does matter. For the Jews, the much disputed line in their national anthem, " the soul of a Jew yearns," as uncomfortable as the Arabs find it, is part and parcel of Israel's self-understanding. To take it out is to deny the country's Jewishness. The same is true of the American identity. You can't take out the ideas that make one an American without changing what this country is all about. Identity is for people, non-negotiable, where its who they are or what they conceive their country to be. Its an assertive thing and liberals may feel discomfited at the idea nations and cultures are not all alike. And that is the way it will remain to the end of time.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[janetgreen]

Most Americans are realizing that this multiculturism idea isn't working the way it's supposed to, yet it is shoved down our throats on a daily basis. Force feeding causes resentment...

[Albion Wilde]

I wish David Brooks would run for President. Every word he writes is just perfect.

[henderson field]

You mean that Zimbabwe is not the same as the United States? Where did you get an idea like that?
"Zimm-bahb-wayy" - it's fun to say but it's an ugly place. Can't for the life of me figure out why the media won't use the "C" word when describing it. You know, "Communist."

[benjaminjjones]

Let's say you are an 18-year-old kid with a really big brain.

Hey! I used to be one of them. I've burned out a lot of those brains cells along the way however, LOL.

Read the excerpt, sounded like NYT pure pablum. Get a job in engineering or computer sciences.

[glorgau]

If you look just around the United States you find amazing cultural segmentation.

Living in the Bay area of Northern California, don't I know it!

[The Duke]

I've always told my kids that I am not this least bit racist, but that I might be considered a "culturist" - becuase I believe that some cultures are superior to others (and that my own culture is not necessary at the top of the heap, either).

The worshipping of "multiculturalism" is the Achilles heel of modern liberal philosphy. For example, might one legitimately consider a culture that forces involuntary mutulation of it's female members to be inferior to one that does not? And, if this is the case then what's the significance of "multiculturalism"?

Personally I think "multiculturalism" is just an excuse for a certain segment of our population to parade through life dressed like clowns.

[Tax-chick]

Thomas Sowell already covered this issue, exhaustively, brilliantly, endlessly.