Multiculturalism and the Fall of Western Civilization

The Clash of Civilizations | 2002 | Samuel P. Huntington

[dennisw]

Great post from you and article by Huntington.

[Noumenon]

Thanks again - People really, really need to get a handle on this.

The clash between the multiculturalists and the defenders of Western civilization and the American Creed is, in James Kurth's phrase, "the real clash" within the American segment of Western civilization.

[Noumenon]

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[Under the Radar]

The Right won the culture wars. It is the Cultural Left that has been reduced to college towns, Greenwich Village, and the San Francisco Bay area.

Wow. Please back this statement up.

[Under the Radar]

Great post, thank you.

[Neophyte]

The Right won the culture wars.

But Huntington doesn't have in mind only Left and Right dihotomy. As it always was in history, it's also East and West. Your screen name is a good example, Khan Tokhtamish.

[Noumenon]

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[Noumenon]

VDH bump

[Under the Radar]

Yes, let's keep this important thread bumped up!

[schmelvin]

It is clear that in one way or another it is the American culture, which dominates, or attempts to dominate the rest of the word. The result will be an Americanized world far away from extinction.

My biggest concern is that the American culture that's been dominating the world isn't Traditional American Culture at all, but American Pop Culture: Mickey Mouse, Big Macs, Madonna, Hollywood films, etc.

Traditional American Culture is an entirely different thing: Liberty, property, Puritan work ethic, rule of law, rugged individualism, personal responsibility, etc. Not only do I not see us largely exporting these things, but I see us discarding them ourselves.

I'm only in my mid-30s, but I remember a different America in my youth. No one locked their doors, a man's word was his bond, schools actually taught and disciplined students, etc.

Our national character has changed. The character of our immigrants has changed. They don't respect us or their new homeland, and one reason I think they don't is because we don't stand for the same principals we used to.

[Noumenon]

Too bad Durant isn't standard reading in our schools, as it is in our house:

"The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without and multiplying from within."
--Will Durant, The Story of Civilization

It's worth stating again that the barbarians are already inside the gate - they're the heirs and disciples of Antonio Gramsci, and they dominate the educational and cultural scene. With everything that implies.

[Let's Roll]

The bottom line is, world conversion to Islam would be regression in human civilization. I don't really think God wants that and when He deems it to be time He will see to it that the West prevails.

I understand that the other side believes the same thing so we have to choose - you can believe that a culture that hates its enemies more than it loves its own children is superior or that we are.

[Noumenon]

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[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

To put it another way we are no longer a "people." We are in he process of becoming 300 million isolated little atoms.

[Lady Eileen]

bump......thanks for the post.