Posted on 09/14/2018 2:16:58 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Our diversity is our greatest strength.
After playing clips of Democratic politicians reciting that truth of modern liberalism, Tucker Carlson asked, "How, precisely, is diversity our strength? Since you've made this our new national motto, please be specific."
Reaction to Carlson's question, with some declaring him a racist for having raised it, suggests that what we are dealing with here is not a demonstrable truth but a creed not subject to debate.
Yet the question remains valid: Where is the scientific, historic or empirical evidence that the greater the racial, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of a nation, the stronger it becomes?
From recent decades, it seems more true to say the reverse: The more diverse a nation, the greater the danger of its disintegration.
Ethnic diversity, after all, tore apart our mighty Cold War rival, splintering the Soviet Union into 15 nations, three of which — Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia — have since split further along ethnic lines.
Russia had to fight two wars to hold onto Chechnya and prevent the diverse peoples of the North Caucasus from splitting off on ethnic grounds, as Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan had done.
Ethnic diversity then shattered Yugoslavia into seven separate nations.
And even as we proclaim diversity to be our greatest strength, nations everywhere are recoiling from it.
The rise of populism and nationalism across Europe is a reaction to the new diversity represented by the Arab, Asian and African millions who have lately come, and the tens of millions desperate to enter.
Center-left and center-right parties are losing ground in European elections because they are seen as feckless in meeting what more and more indigenous Europeans believe to be an existential threat — mass migration from across the Med.
Japan's population has ceased to grow, and each year brings fewer toddlers into its schools. Yet Tokyo resists the racial and ethnic diversity greater immigration would bring. Why, if diversity is a strength?
What South Koreans dream of is uniting again with the 22 million separated members of their national family who live in the North, but share the same history and blood.
This summer, in its Basic Law, Israel declared itself an ethnonational state and national home of the Jewish people. African migrants crossing the Sinai to seek sanctuary in Israel are unwelcome.
Consider China, which seeks this century to surpass America as the first power on earth. Does Xi Jinping welcome a greater racial, ethnic and cultural diversity within his county as, say, Barack Obama does in ours?
In his western province of Xinjiang, Xi has set up an archipelago of detention camps. Purpose: Re-educate his country's Uighurs and Kazakhs by purging them of their religious and tribal identities, and making them and their children more like Han Chinese in allegiance to the Communist Party and Chinese nation.
Xi fears that the 10 million Uighurs of Xinjiang, as an ethnic and religious minority, predominantly Muslim, wish to break away and establish an East Turkestan, a nation of their own, out of China. And he is correct.
What China is doing is brutalitarian. But what China is saying with its ruthless policy is that diversity — religious, racial, cultural — can break us apart as it did the USSR. And we are not going to let that happen.
Do the Buddhists of Myanmar cherish the religious diversity that the Muslim Rohingya of Rakhine State bring to their country?
America has always been more than an idea, an ideology or a propositional nation. It is a country that belongs to a separate and identifiable people with its own history, heroes, holidays, symbols, songs, myths, mores — its own culture.
Again, where is the evidence that the more Americans who can trace their roots to the Third World, and not to Europe, the stronger we will be?
Is the Britain of Theresa May, with its new racial, religious and ethnic diversity, a stronger nation than was the U.K. of Lloyd George, which ruled a fourth of mankind in 1920?
Was it not the unity Bismarck forged among the diverse Germanic peoples, bringing them into a single nation under the Kaiser in 1871, that made Germany a far stronger and more formidable power in Europe?
Empires, confederations and alliances are multiethnic and multicultural. And, inevitably, their diversity pulls them apart.
The British Empire was the greatest in modern history. What tore it apart? Tribalism, the demands of diverse peoples, rooted in blood and soil, to be rid of foreign rule and to have their own place in the sun.
And who are loudest in preaching that our diversity is our strength?
Are they not the same people who told us that democracy was the destiny of all mankind and that, as the world's "exceptional nation," we must seize the opportunity of our global preeminence to impose its blessings on the less enlightened tribes of the Middle East and Hindu Kush?
If the establishment is proven wrong about greater diversity bringing greater strength to America, there will be no do-over for the USA.
What about the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
It’s diverse!
oh its gone....never mind!
Yes! It really cheapened the struggle of people with leukemia. A horrible movie.
Ehh ... not until the white conservative was cast out from the group. Plus, they would keep a close eye on that not-to-be-trusted heterosexual freak ...
Headline:
“With 220 languages spoken in California, courts face an interpreter shortage”
The very assertion is absurd. How could it possibly be true? Strength in unity makes sense. It implies a cumulative effect, an aggregation of individuals into a cohesive entity.
Diversity, by contrast, is variety, differences, a subtraction of strengths until one reaches a lowest common denominator. Strength in diversity contradicts common sense as well as observation.
Oh is that what she had?? HA! I didn’t even know. Thanks!
Yugoslavia was a most diverse nation prior to WWI consisting of Croats, Serbs and Muslims of Kosovo. This “wonderful diversity” is what sowed the seeds of WWI. This was a most horrible war with millions lost in battle and more millions of civilians killed.
When the war was over the French and English imposed draconian retribution on Germany and thus seeded the rise of Hitler and another great war.
The United States is a country of many diverse people with a common culture and as such we are a grand nation. The people of Europe came here not to be British, Irish, Italian, German etc. They came here to be Americans. Odd is it not that these same people took up arms against their nations of origin to defend our grand nation.
If a nation does not have a common culture it is not a nation but a Balkanization as Yugoslavia that is doomed to failure and war and great death.
That's because all the people at the ice cream shop had just visited the marijuana shop.
Is Our diversity our greatest a strength?
I grew up in an era that promoted the melting pot. To me the melting pot represented the potential unity that assimilation brought about.
I don’t know the time or event that caused the government to decide to stir the melting pot. That is when diversity began to lose any chance of strengthening the country by unifying the country.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
-George Orwell
The left took 1984 as a playbook rather than a warning.
Hmmm, something sounds familiar here...
United we stand, divided we fall. The left understands this.
When the facts are against you, “Racism!” is the scoundrel’s last refuge.
Some years ago, while doing immigration cases for people emigrating to Florida, in getting their children into the public schools in Broward I learned that the schools were dealing with thirty-seven different languages, including Hmong.
“...with some declaring him a racist for having raised it,...”
And that, right there, is how they try to silence you into submission. It’s a word. It only has the power you LET it have. And the answer to them, always, when they throw that word around is “Go F*** Yourself”.
Gee... I wonder what would have happened if the Japanese troops on Iwo Jima would have just yelled “Racists!!!!” at the Marines storming the beach. I guess those American boys would have turned right around, got back on the Amtracs and Higgins boats, and shame-facedly sailed away across the Pacific... cause like, racism, you know...
I’m on my phone, so I cannot cut and paste pictures. But if I was able to I would repost that famous meme of that general comforting a woman after the massacre at Fort Hood. This was the general who claimed that the massacre was horrible, but it would be even more horrible if the army were to lose its diversity.
So the picture of the general comforting the woman had a caption: “Don’t worry ma’am, they died for diversity. “
I remember an old saying, “Divide and Conquer”.
Tucker Carlson’s strength is that he asks questions that no one else in a position like his ever asks.
Please state your response.
Diversity is Bull%HIT.
When America was less “diverse” American made their greatest strides...Winning two world wars, going into space and beating World Communism this country was populated by over 80 percent European stock.
Now our country cannot gather together and watch a simple football game without falling apart into sects.
Diversity will be the death of America.
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