Why They Won't Assimilate

American Thinker ^ | May 21, 2007 | Selwyn Duke

[neverdem]

Today's immigrants are not assimilating into our culture.  Ted Kennedy's Immigration Reform Act of 1965 has created a situation in which 85 percent of our immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia. This portends the destruction of the western civilization that has given us everything we hold dear, from our  freedom to our prosperity, not for reasons of race, but because of circumstances at least partly created by Americans ourselves.

Assimilation is not a process magically initiated upon setting foot on American terra firma.  Rather, it only occurs when one or both of two conditions are met: The foreign elements must have a desire to assimilate or the host nation must place pressure on them to do so.  Unfortunately, neither is the case today because both immigrants and native-born Americans are far different than they once were. 

I've pointed out that a nation allows its stabilizing majority to disappear at its own peril (unprecedented Third World immigration has reduced America's European-heritage population from almost 90 percent to about 66 percent in just a little more than four decades).  But a critic could rightly mention that white Americans weren't always viewed so monolithically.  When our nation saw a huge influx of Irish, Italian and German immigrants, there was often great group conflict; ethnic slurs passed lips and fights were not uncommon (amazing how they negotiated this period without "hate crime" laws, huh?).  Yet, there was a difference.

Immigrants: Today vs. Yesteryear 

Today's M&M influx (Moslems and Mexicans) is distinguished from previous immigrant waves by a sense of entitlement.  A Zogby poll found that 58 percent of Mexicans believe California and the Southwest rightly belong to them.  Although this belief is bred by a tendentious view of history, it doesn't change the end result.  It has spawned groups such as Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), which advocates conquering the Southwest in the name of Mexico. More significantly, it causes many average Mexicans to have no compunction about imposing their culture and language on the country that has so generously given them succor.

Where Mexicans exhibit ethnic patriotism, Moslems manifest religious chauvinism.  Far too many pious Moslems believe they have been enjoined to impose their faith on others by any means necessary; this is why they will unabashedly demand concessions, such as their own dormitories at colleges and an Arabic public school in New York City.  It's also why they have fought for the right to use sharia law to settle civil disputes in Canada.  

This lies in stark contrast to the behavior of most of yesteryear's immigrants.  Like anyone else, they certainly felt comfortable in the bosom of their own subculture; yet, they knew they were in another's land and never viewed accommodation by their host nation as a birthright, and any ethnic patriotism harbored was often trumped by the dream of becoming American.  Unfortunately, today's immigrants' dream is often our nightmare, one from which we could arise if only, if only, if only....

Looking at the American in the Mirror   

Walt Kelly wrote, "We have met the enemy and he is us."  The truth is that when assigning blame, our feet are where the majority of it must lie.  There was a time when Americans, like most nationalities, took pride in their culture and defended it with manly fortitude.  Today, though, after decades of imbuing the modern mind with the "Hey, hey, ho, ho, western culture's gotta go!" mentality, this is no longer the case.  Too many of us have imbibed the multiculturalist malt, with its evenhanded principle stating that others have a right to their cultures and we have a right to them, too.  But this philosophical shift has been addressed before, so let's discuss a nuts and bolts aspect of the problem.

Many of us understand how government actively thwarts assimilation by pandering to foreign elements.  Our government will print official documents in other languages (the standard California driver's license test is available in 32 of them) just so those without enough respect to learn our national common tongue can collect our national treasure and cast votes for those who lavish it upon them.  But this isn't where governmental complicity in this problem ends. 

Traditionally, Americans never relied on government to achieve most goals, and ensuring assimilation was no exception.  Many years ago, for instance, if a person insisted on dressing like an advertisement for the Middle Ages, didn't learn the language or sought to impose strange beliefs in the workplace, he would have been fired or not hired in the first place.  What this means is that the Moslem clerks and cab drivers who, respectively, won't ring up pork and won't pick up passengers with alcohol or seeing-eye dogs would have either changed their ways or returned to where ways don't change.  This enforcement of tradition through individual initiative is what almost every non-western country does and makes sense.  If you're so enamored of your native ways, stay in your native land. 

If you tried this today, though, you'd receive a treatment from the proctologist of government bureaucracies, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  Yes, because freedom of association has been trumped by lawless judges, citizens have lost control over their businesses, rental properties and, in many cases, organizations.  Privately owned and financed entities can no longer determine who receives paychecks, who will be served and who will be rented to, thus removing the social pressure to conform that the common man would naturally apply via the exercise of his values in his castle.  Likewise, local school boards have been robbed of the right to set dress codes and behavior standards reflecting the surrounding community.  What this means is now you can't refuse to hire a cross-dressing Columbian from Cartagena.  Ah, it sounds almost Jeffersonian...  almost.  We've now traded liberty for perversity.

America is being erased.  The stabilizing majority that forged her unique culture is being eroded through the importation of culturally imperialistic forces by treasonous politicians.  And traitors they are, and be not faint-hearted in saying so.  After all, if this happened anywhere but in western nations, the lamentation over this cultural imperialism would be staggering.  Just imagine if the majority population of Nigeria or Cambodia were rapidly being replaced with a European one.  The only question would be whether the nation they hailed from would be targeted by only stupid bureaucrats or also smart bombs.

A wise person once said a definition of insanity is ". . . doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."  This aphorism has been attributed variously to Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein, and for all I know, Chief Seattle. Given that we have a greatly diminished sense of national identity, Moslem terrorists blending into a multicultural mish-mash, Spanish supplanting English, and Mexican flags going up while American ones come down, should we really stay the course?  The M&M invasion sympathizers may call me names, but I'll simply render a diagnosis: They're insane.  They have turned immigration into an institution.  It's time for it to be institutionalized.

Contact Selwyn Duke

[Regulator]

They are escaping the violence, drugs, and gangs of LA

Uh, and that won't follow them, if there are enough of them?

Read Post 52 before continuing. Try responding to that.

There are Spanish radio stations in Tucson

I know. Want to know how many there were in 1970? One. That's it. One. How do I know? Was born there in the 50's and raised there. I remember the first sign in Spanish in Tucson that I saw: in 1976.

You're a newcomer, and you see it as it is now. You have no idea what it was. Or what was considered ordinary. The Mexican population of Tucson in 1960 was under 10%. And had been that way since the 1850's. Know why? Because Mexico, and the Mexicans, never got much north of La Frontera. And the few that did were irrelevant. Think California Bear Flag Rebellion on that one.

It's a popular misconception of Easterners to think that the Southwest "has always been Mexican", and maybe you're one of them. It wasn't. It was populated by the Americans, mainly from the midwest (ever wonder who rode the railroads west? Or why they built them?).

The only reason you are seeing "assimiliation" or some cheap facsimile of it in Tucson is precisely because of what I said: there are still more Americans there. For now. That area is targeted by the Mexican government, so expect more. Soon.

And it's because of Sob Sisters like you that this crap is happening. You vote for weakness because you believe in accomodation. It's a female thing, right? Pobrecitos and all that. What you are doing is bringing in the support structure for Mexican corruption and criminality, which is what that country and culture are about. Hey, I'm from Tucson, ya know? We all know about Nogales and Sonora.

BTW, howdja like that big gun battle in Cananea the other day? Fun huh? Coming to a suburb near you. Don't believe me? Drive out Ajo Way to Three Points in the early morning hours and check out who's on the road with you. Suggestion: take a gun.

Think I'm being a little harsh? Wrong. Even Tucson used to be a relatively crime free town. Not anymore. Los Inmigrantes bring their country with them. Last year my own father was taken hostage in his home and terrorized for hours by your 'assimilados'. Since I was already hard line on this, you can't say that it radicalized me. It just confirmed what I knew: Mexico is uncivilized and has been for 5 centuries, and it isn't going to change. And because of the MASSIVE influx from there due to their overpopulation relative to their economy, the place that will change is AMERICA, and not MEXICO. Even Tucson is a far more Mexican place now then when I grew up...or even from when my Mother lived there in the '40s. Can you say that Hermosillo, or Guaymas, or Obregon, or Culiacan, or Los Mochis are "more American"?

So your "they'll assimilate" bleating is nonsense. As soon as they have a critical mass...no sale. They stay Mexican. After all, it's their land, right? The Pope gave it to them in 1495. The gabachos stole it in 1846. Just ask them. And if you're a Guera Gringa, don't expect the truth.

[hershey]

Absolutely right.

[wintertime]

Liberalism has taught people to despise American culture.

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The religion of Liberalism/Marxism is preached continuously in our government K-12 madrasses, and our colleges and universities. If Americans were sane they would immediately remove ALL state and private financing of these madrasses.

Liberalism/Marxism is a **religion** with religious, political, and cultural NON-nuetral consequences for our nation. Our government K-12 and college and university madrasses are of far more danger to the long term survival as a nation than is the war in Iraq or the Islamofascist threat.

[Ohioan]

The whole concept of "assimilation," involves massive misunderstanding of what actually does or does not take place. The whole subject of race and ethnicity is misunderstood, as a result of the fanatic suppression of study and debate, flowing from the near fanatical pursuit of "One World" thinking over the past two generations.

It may sound overly simplistic, but actually all peoples stand to lose a vital part of their heritage and value structures, if the present madness is not arrested. That the American mainstream seems paralyzed and unwilling to fight the lunacy unfolding, is surely one of the great tragedies of human history.

For my views on some of the issues, see Immigration & The American Future, which also offers links to other articles.

Bill Flax

[dragnet2]

There are a whole lot of LA transplants in Tucson. And they’re not white. (or black or Asian) They speak English. They are escaping the violence, drugs, and gangs of LA.

It appears that Tuscon has more crime than Los Angeles.

Los Angeles and Tucson Comparative Crime Ratios per 100,000 people

[dragnet2]

See 65.

[petitfour]

Maybe they’re leaving their particular area of LA and the crime that was prevalent there. One female I know left southern California after being carjacked TWICE. She is still paranoid as I would be.

[dragnet2]

But the fact remains, it appears there is more crime per 100,000 in Tucson than LA.

I was a little surprised too.

[Altura Ct.]

“That the American mainstream seems paralyzed and unwilling to fight the lunacy unfolding, is surely one of the great tragedies of human history.”

Well said! If we don’t take off the shackles of PC and the idea that Western Culture is not only worth saving but also why we will surely parish and so will the United States of America.

[oldbrowser]

I am the Borg! You will be assimilated! Resistance is futile

Immigrants have never completely assimilated.

It's a melting pot remember?

[bedolido]

yes... but I found that picture and had to find a reason to post it... been kinda a boring day.

At work and must appear busy and concerned.

[petitfour]

We have another friend whose leg was nearly blown off by a shotgun blast from his childhood on the streets of LA. He didn’t want his children to grow up in the ‘hood either. He has great kids. And he works hard. I think his family must have spoken Spanish when he was a child, but his children don’t know it any better than my children.

[raybbr]

Why They Won't Assimilate

Because they don't have to.

[FrdmLvr]

Why won’t they assimilate? Why should they?

[Nea Wood]

Great post.

[petitfour]

BTW, I grew up in Jackson, MS. Ever been there? I wasn’t alive in 1960, and I can compare what it was like in 1980 to what it is like today. I don’t think there’s been a Mexican invasion either.

[JoanneSD]

Senator Cornyn has an option on his web page to have it translated to spanish.....wonder why?

[Gritty]

[neverdem]

I called the offices of Eliot Engel, Schumer and Hillary. I told Schumer's Peekskill office that this immigration bill is an attack on the middle class. Chuck's book and strategy is for the dems to appeal the the middle class. His NYC office wasn't answering. Only Engel's and Schumer's office asked for my name and address.

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[THEUPMAN]

The social security ponzi scheme needs X number of new warm bodies at the bottom of the pyramid.

Where will they come from if we don’t keep the flood gates open.

I really think this is the underlying reason for all the “conservative” leaders jumping on the bandwagon.