President Biden referred to Japan, China, and Russia as” xenophobic” during a fundraiser held to celebrate the start of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
” You know, one of the reasons why our economy is growing is … because we welcome refugees. Why is China stalling but awful financially? Why is Japan having problem? Why is Russia? Because they’re racist. They do n’t want immigrants. Refugees are what makes us solid”!
However, the utopian idea of diversification as our” strength”, often championed by liberals, differs from the harsh reality that diversification has never been a power of countries.
In Who Are We, the text? The Challenges to America’s National Identity, social professor Samuel Huntington posited:
Had America been the America it is now if, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it had been settled never by English Puritans but by French, Spanish, or Portuguese? No, that’s the truth. It would not be America, it would be Quebec, Mexico, or Brazil.
And what about the West? If the West continued to take refugees from nations around the world who rejected its values and traditions, would it still be as it was? No, too, in that response. The West may no longer be the West, later, it may look like a confluence of South America, Sub- Saharan Africa, Asia, and elements of the Middle East. Unfortunately, the West is currently in a situation where American nations have been purposefully and considerably altered by unrelenting mass migration.
Usually, countries have been an offshoot of communities and individuals bound together by the ties of common heritage, speech, culture, and history within the confines of a certain place. Today in modern America, shared society, custom, and history have been cast away as if these originally shared values were superfluous to a nation’s health and prosperity. Even though the United States may still claim a delimited geographic area, legal immigration and the porous nature of our southern border, both of which are intended to threaten the very definition of citizenship.
The very idea of a nation enforcing its borders is in stark opposition to liberal principles, both right and left. In this paradigm, the United States was abruptly replaced by the idea of America as an idea, making it nothing more than an economic opportunity zone and service provider for global migration, accessible to anyone who can come to its shores, irrespective of the negative effects our culture, crime rates, or the financial repercussions of low wages for the average American worker.
In consequence, the United States has suffered disastrous consequences as a result of this distaste for the country’s citizens in favor of the new religion of “multiculturalism,” where even today’s country falls far short of meeting even the most fundamental standards of what it means to be a “nation.”
It’s important to understand that multiculturalism is a broad ideology that accepts that Western nations are inherently racist and irredeemably wicked, and that mass migration can be seen as a form of Western penance administered by leftist clergy, even though the complexity of multiculturalism can be linked to and worsened by higher levels of immigration. Young people in the Western world have been impacted significantly by this ideology, primarily because it has seized complete control of academia.
Today’s Western student activists are the primary drivers of multiculturalism under the academic gospel of “diversity, equity, and inclusion”. They are adamant about all other cultures aside from their own, and they tend to concentrate on identifying racism and imperialism in the Western world, as recently demonstrated by the” Free Palestine” college campus protests that are taking place all over the nation.
Multiculturalism’s threats are not a recent issue. Long ago, Plato touched on three fundamental reservations while examining the effects of diversity and multiculturalism within a particular polity:
Homogeneity: Plato advocated for a harmonious society with defined roles and obligations. This suggests that people place a strong emphasis on shared values and standards as opposed to a unified culture.
Assimilation: Plato’s envisioned state strongly emphasizes education and shaping citizens to adhere to the state’s values and laws. This could be interpreted as a form of cultural assimilation, whereby people are encouraged to abide by the established cultural norms.
Plato feared the potential negative impact of foreign ideas and customs on local culture. He might have supported measures that would curtail the adoption of foreign allegiances and threaten the state’s stability.
Theodore Roosevelt addressed similar concerns about the United States in a 1915 speech on the subject of” Americanism” long after Plato first walked the Earth.
Roosevelt disapproved of the idea of “hyphenated Americanism”, which described individuals who identified with both their American nationality and their ethnic or ancestral backgrounds ( e. g., German- Americans, Irish- Americans ). He claimed that a genuine Americanism demanded a united, unwavering commitment to the United States and a preference for allegiance to the country over other political views. He argued that the citizens ‘ elevated patriotism, which gave precedence to individual rights and any prior foreign allegiances, was what would ensure the success of the United States, especially in the face of international pressures and challenges.
Today, Roosevelt’s vision of America is all but dead. By bringing people into our nation with no connection to our past or inclination to embrace it, the left attempts to destroy it. Even those who want to assimilate must navigate a system of education that is in direct opposition to the principles of American identity.
In the eyes of our ruling elite, accepting unfettered immigration is an act of atonement for our nation’s perceived historical” sins” and also a form of punishment inflicted upon the very citizens they hold in contempt — the white “deplorables” who live in “flyover” country. While those in positions of privilege sing their siren song of multiculturalism from high atop their ivory towers and within their gated communities, they are shielded from the effects of cultural fragmentation.
America is not a mere abstract “idea” or a frivolous experiment, as nations do not dwell in the realm of abstraction. When taken at the most extreme levels, diversity has caused significant internal conflict and conflict, leading to populist and nationalist movements that, on their own, believe that maintaining the values and traditions that once made Western nations great is important. Movements like” America First” within the United States are a natural response to the unprecedented cultural transformations that have taken place in recent years.
The ascent of the anti- cultural ideology of multiculturalism, coupled with relentless immigration and the subversion of America’s national borders, has already eroded the cherished ties of common ancestry, language, culture, and history that have defined the United States as a nation. The traditional virtues of nationhood are being lost in the open while ignoring the traditional principles of nationhood, which has caused America to be on the verge of cultural oblivion.
