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Victor Davis Hanson: Premodern Diversity Vs. Civilizational Unity - Old immigration once enriched America, but our new version is destroying it
American Greatness ^ | 26 Oct, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/26/2023 7:12:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Few Romans in the late decades of their 5th-century AD empire celebrated their newfound “diversity” of marauding Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals.

These tribes en masse had crossed the unsecured Rhine and Danube borders to harvest Roman bounty without a care about what had created it.

Their agendas were focused on destroying the civilization they overran rather than peacefully integrating into and perpetuating the Empire.

Ironically, Rome’s prior greatness had been due to the extension of citizenship to diverse people throughout Europe, North Africa, and Asia.

Millions had been assimilated, integrated, and intermarried and often superseded the original Italians of the early Roman Republic. Such fractious diversity had led to unity around the idea of Rome.

New citizens learned to enjoy the advantages of habeas corpus, sophisticated roads, aqueducts, and public architecture, and the security offered by the legions.

The unity of these diverse peoples fused into a single culture that empowered Rome. In contrast, the later disunity of hundreds of thousands of tribal people flooding into and dividing Rome doomed it.

To meet the challenge of a multiracial society, the only viable pathway to a stable civilization of racially and ethnically different people is a single, shared culture.

Some nations can find collective success as a single homogenous people like Japan or Switzerland.

Or equally, but with more difficulty, nations can prosper with heterodox peoples—but only if united by a single, inclusive culture as the American melting-pot once attested.

But a baleful third option—a multicultural society of diverse, unassimilated, and often rival tribes—historically is a prescription for collective suicide.

We are beginning to see just that in America, as it sheds the melting pot, and adopts the salad bowl of unassimilated and warring tribes.

The U.S. is now seeing a rise in violent racially and religiously motivated hate

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: israel; vdh; victordavishanson; waronterror

1 posted on 10/26/2023 7:12:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The plan is to tear down the existing system and society. Then they want to build back better (communist).


2 posted on 10/26/2023 7:13:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 10/26/2023 7:13:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


4 posted on 10/26/2023 7:16:37 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

That’s the plan.


5 posted on 10/26/2023 7:19:01 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: MtnClimber

The early immigrants enriched us because the government didn’t pay anything for them.

The first of mine went from the boat to the ethnic neighborhood.


6 posted on 10/26/2023 7:19:47 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: MtnClimber
Old immigration once enriched America, but our new version is destroying it

And that is precisely the objective.

7 posted on 10/26/2023 7:20:13 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: MtnClimber

White is bad. Brown is good. Let’s make it Brown. By any means necessary.


8 posted on 10/26/2023 7:31:24 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: MtnClimber

The ‘old version’ (like my grandparents) were overjoyed to be in America and to BE Americans. The old country was so awful by then, my grandmother said she kissed the ground when she arrived.

At that time, the highest compliment that you could pay a person was to say he/she was an American. When they got here, they could not assimilate fast enough and respected America and Americans.

My grandfather owned a neighborhood store until he was 65 then went to work in a factory about 3 miles from the house.

He didn’t want to spend the nickel for a bus, so he walked there every day in snow, rain, storm.... etc.

The police used to see him walking and in bad weather they’d stop and give him a lift.

If a bill came to the house, he put on his hat and coat and walked to town to pay it....same day. There was no safety net to pay your way for you, so they worked their a%#es off until they diedl

All the old timers were like that.


9 posted on 10/26/2023 7:34:43 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: MtnClimber

“ The plan is to tear down the existing system and society. Then they want to build back better (communist).”

That’s just the part they admit to. While claiming the build back better is good for everyone (more fair, more equitable, more diverse, etc.), the real build back is to create a system where they have absolute control of every aspect of life utilizing the power of The State. The riches of The State will all flow through their hands, and what is necessary to insure their position will be what’s allowed for everyone else. It’s a story repeated innumerable times throughout history. Many things change with time, but human nature isn’t one of them.


10 posted on 10/26/2023 7:48:54 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: MtnClimber

We don’t have a new version of immigration we have a free for all border to keep the democrat party in charge.

Communists know where to find help all the time.


11 posted on 10/26/2023 7:51:21 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: MtnClimber

Diversity is discord. Multiculturalism is suicide.


12 posted on 10/26/2023 8:01:49 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: MtnClimber

Diversity and multiculturalism is OK so long as the cultures forced side-by-side do not have incompatibilities. All major US cities have ghettos. Not forced enclaves because of economics or racism, but by the inhabitants who like living in amongst their “own kind”.
These can be fantastic since you can go there to sample their culture.

But, it is untenable if they allow some of their inhabitants to make visiting dangerous because the weirdos hate outsiders. When this happens the entire ghetto must be expelled.


13 posted on 10/26/2023 8:31:19 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: bobbo666

Our immigration policy was crafted by insane tyrant LBJ and drunkard Ted Kennedy. What could go wrong?


14 posted on 10/26/2023 12:55:21 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: MtnClimber

I read the article. Nothing no thinking American Patriot didn’t know 40 years ago.

In sum, kill Whitey. It is as simple as that.


15 posted on 10/26/2023 3:29:18 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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