No, it has nothing to do with race. We can be a multiracial society, but we can't be a multicultural one and preserve the values and ideals that formed this nation.
Well, I disagree. A society can be multi-racial in part, but once it becomes heavily multi-racial it will inevitably become multi-cultural. You can't separate the two. For example, a nation that is 90% white and 10% other races combined can avoid multi-culturalism, but a nation that is (for example) one third white, one third black, and one third Mestizo would be constantly torn by multi-culturalism.
All you have to do is look at Canada where the relatively slight difference between Anglo-Canadians and French-Canadians has constantly created turmoil, because the French-Canadian minority is significant and concentrated in a large province with a lot of clout. Imagine if one of Canada's provinces had an Arabic-speaking Muslim majority, or if one had a black majority. Imagine if every Canadian province had a different racial majority.
This idea that nations can be multi-racial and still be mono-cultural is ludicrous. It comes from the fact that America, after being founded by the British, was able to admit some immigrants from other European nations with relatively little turmoil. So people project from that that we could just as easily admit tens of millions of people from Africa, India, China, Mexico, or the Middle East with no problem. Well, we couldn't.
Well, you might ask why we couldn't admit those people but demand that they adopt our culture. The problem is, we can't demand that if there are millions of them and they can vote. The reason we were able once-upon-a-time to demand it of blacks and Native Americans is that we didn't let them vote. People a hundred years ago didn't talk much about black culture because blacks were an oppressed minority with no political clout, so they had to bow to our Western culture. Once they got the vote and began electing mayors and politically dominating certain regions, we began to hear talk of black culture and began to hear Jesse Jackson chanting "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Western Civ Has Got To Go".
This will inevitably happen. The Tibetans and Chinese can't live in the same nation without either the Chinese oppressing the Tibetans or agreeing to be multi-cultural towards them.
This isn't to say that any one race is better than any other. It's just a reality. Yet we act shocked when the reality slaps us in the face. People were "shocked" when blacks cheered the O.J. acquittal. They were "shocked" when Obama's pastor turned out to be a hater. They were "shocked" when a Hispanic politician in California boasted about the last gasp of white people in that state. No doubt Native Americans were "shocked" when whites began pushing them off their traditional lands. Then again, maybe they weren't so shocked because they hadn't been taught for years that "race doesn't matter" and we can all live together under the umbrella of the same culture.
Multiracial societies are inherently unstable. As black conservative Thomas Sowell stated (sic) They only “work” when one race is a large majority.
In 1960, whites were 90 percent of the country. The Census Bureau recently estimated that whites already account for less than two-thirds of the population and will be a minority by 2050. Other estimates put that day much sooner.
One may assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords as the white majority has been. If this sort of drastic change were legally imposed on any group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide. Yet whites are called racists merely for mentioning the fact that current immigration law is intentionally designed to reduce their percentage in the population.
- Ann Coulter