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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Can diversity destroy us?

Posted: December 4, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Patrick J. Buchanan

© 2007 

On the Great Seal of the United States, first
suggested by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, there was to be
emblazoned a new motto: “E Pluribus Unum” – “Out of many,
one.”

It was in their unity, not their diversity, that the strength of the
colonies resided. So Patrick Henry believed, as he declared, “The distinctions
between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no
more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.”

National identity must supersede state identity for America to survive.

Yet it has lately become fashionable to say that America is great not
because she is united, but because she is diverse. It is because America is a
multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual nation that she is a
great nation. A corollary is that the more diverse America becomes, the
better and greater she becomes.

After the Los Angeles riot of 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle was asked by
his Japanese hosts if perhaps America did not suffer from too much diversity.
“I begged to differ with my hosts,” Quayle retorted. “I
explained that our diversity is our strength.”

And so our rulers, marinated in the myths that we “are a nation of
immigrants” and “our diversity is our strength,” continue to
embrace mass immigration – the more the better. But are the myths true?

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America was settled by colonists from the British Isles. In 1789, two
centuries after Jamestown and Plymouth Rock, we were 99 percent Protestant.
Until the Irish came in 1845, there was almost no immigration. Even during
the Great Wave of 1890-1920, the number of immigrants was a fraction of the
38 million here today. And all had come from Europe. By 1960, we were almost
90 percent European and more than 90 percent Christian – of one nationality,
American, one language, English, and one culture.

That America is gone forever.

Last week, we learned that in the last seven years 10.3 million people,
almost all from the Third World, entered the United States, more than half
illegally. The nation that was one-tenth minority in 1960 is now one-third
minority. European-Americans will soon be a minority in the nation, as they
are today in California, Texas and most large American cities.

And when that day comes, what then will unite us as a people?

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.