Especially in "Aztlan."
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Posted on 12/04/2007 9:27:51 AM PST by Travis McGee
On the Great Seal of the United States, first suggested by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, there was to be emblazoned a new motto: "E Pluribus Unum" -- "Out of many, one."
It was in their unity, not their diversity, that the strength of the colonies resided. So Patrick Henry believed, as he declared, "The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American."
National identity must supersede state identity for America to survive.
Yet it has lately become fashionable to say that America is great not because she is united, but because she is diverse. It is because America is a multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual nation that she is a great nation. A corollary is that the more diverse America becomes, the better and greater she becomes.
After the Los Angeles riot of 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle was asked by his Japanese hosts if perhaps America did not suffer from too much diversity. "I begged to differ with my hosts," Quayle retorted. "I explained that our diversity is our strength." And so our rulers, marinated in the myths that we "are a nation of immigrants" and "our diversity is our strength," continue to embrace mass immigration, the more the better. But are the myths true?
America was settled by colonists from the British Isles. In 1789, two centuries after Jamestown and Plymouth Rock, we were 99 percent Protestant. Until the Irish came in 1845, there was almost no immigration. Even during the Great Wave of 1890-1920, the number of immigrants was a fraction of the 38 million here today. And all had come from Europe. By 1960, we were almost 90 percent European and more than 90 percent Christian -- of one nationality, American, one language, English, and one culture.
That America is gone forever.
Last week, we learned that in the last seven years 10.3 million people, almost all from the Third World, entered the United States, more than half illegally. The nation that was one-tenth minority in 1960 is now one-third minority. European-Americans will soon be a minority in the nation, as they are today in California, Texas and most large American cities.
And when that day comes, what then will unite us as a people?
Certainly not religious faith, for the last 40 years has seen a large influx of Muslims, the rise of a rabid secularism and the break-up of Christian churches -- the Episcopalians most recently -- over issues of morality: abortion, civil unions, homosexual bishops, assisted suicide, stem cell research, Darwin, creationism. No longer are we united by a common language, as the fastest growing radio and TV stations are Hispanic. And certainly not culture, as we are in a cultural war over history, heroes and holidays.
And how can we say diversity is a strength, when the most diverse nations of Europe, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, shattered into 22 nations as soon as they became free, and Slovaks and Czechs divorced? Ethnic and linguistic diversity is now pulling Belgium apart, as they tore Cyprus in two.
Since World War II, diversity -- racial, religious, ethnic, cultural -- has pulled Malaysia, the Indian subcontinent, Pakistan, Indonesia and Ethiopia apart, and is today pulling Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon apart. How, when tribalism is everywhere ascendant, is diversity a strength?
When Islam arose in the 7th century, our world became more diverse. Fourteen centuries of war followed. When Catholic Europe became more diverse with the Protestant Reformation, a century of war followed, ending in a Thirty Years War that carried away a third of all the German people.
There came a new diversity when the English came to the Red Man's continent in 1607 and Africans were brought as slaves in 1619. From that diversity came the near annihilation of American Indians and a racial divide that led to the American Civil War, bloodiest in the West in the 19th century.
Our racial diversity has ever been the most divisive issue in America -- and remains so, as we see daily from Jena, the Imus affair and the Duke rape case.
Britain is more diverse than in the time of Victoria and Churchill. Is Britain a better, stronger nation now that London is Londonistan, madrassas defend the London bombers and race riots are common in the industrial north? If diversity is a strength, why do Scots wish to follow the Irish and secede?
Has Germany been strengthened by the diversity the Turks brought? Is France a stronger nation for the 5 million to 8 million Muslims concentrated in the banlieus? How have the Japanese suffered from their lack of diversity?
The Melting Pot -- language, law, culture -- worked to make us one nation and one people. But that Melting Pot, cracked and broken, is rejected by multiculturalists as an instrument of cultural genocide, crafted by white Europeans to annihilate native cultures.
This generation is witnessing the Deconstruction of America. Out of one, many.
CW2 Ping.
It’s certainly off to a good start.
yes
I’m a Buchanan fan. Flame away you globalist stooges!
Little late, diversity and PC already has.
I don’t always agree with Buchanan, but he’s 100% right on this issue.
IBBC
Especially in "Aztlan."
“Until the Irish came in 1845, there was almost no immigration.”
As a country, perhaps, yes; as a colony set, there had already been alot of influx.
And please, it wasn’t just Irish, even at that time. There was a huge spike of Germans at the same time. They were and remain the biggest influx of any kind ever. Until the Mexicans “take over”, that is.
And back then our institutions were set up to promote American culture, not to preserve the ways of the old country. The job of the government was to teach Americanism; preserving the language and culture and food of the old country was the job of churches and ethnic associations.
In unity there is strength; in diversity there is weakness.
In a word: YES
Anyone who needs to ask the question is clueless.
Exactly like the losers who originally defined "diversity" as a good thing, in the current context.
Before it became a religion, diversity silently worked as intended. Hundreds of years.
Diversity is code for White people being evil.
Industry and innovation leads a nation to prosperity. Prosperity, unfortunately, leads to sloth, self-indulgence and ultimately, discontent. Until we, as a people, have a reason to get off our fat, overstuffed sofas and back into the real world where hard work and courage are respected, we will continue our blank-stared saunter into oblivion.
Nice going Pat. Took the majority 20 years, but I think they’re finally catching on.
It’s great that Buchanan mentioned Japan. They aren’t nearly as bullied by PC over there as we are over here. It’s interesting that they came right out and suggested to Vice-President Quayle that diversity was a weakness. Of course, he repeated the official mantra that diversity is a strength, which it obviously is not. BTW, didn’t President Bush repeat that nonsense after 9/11?
The biggest crisis the illegal immigration situation has brought us is the lack of assimulation.
The opposition can argue all they want about other cultures coming here at various times, but one thing they held dear was to become an American!
No longer!
Stopped Clock. Blind Pig. Acorn.
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