Certainly not religious faith, for the last
40 years have 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.
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"I am
one. I
cannot
do
everything,
but I
can do
something.
And
because
I cannot
do
everything,
I will
not
refuse
to do
the
something
that I
can do.
What I
can do,
I should
do. And
what I
should
do, by
the
grace of
God, I
will
do."
- Edward
Everett
Hale