I find myself beginning to be bemused at the constant (for a decade or more) refrain that

we "celebrate diversity."

I can't seem to find that anywhere. Presidents’ Day? No. Easter? No. Memorial Day? July

4th? Thanksgiving? Christmas? No.

We celebrate one of two things on these days: Being an American or our Christian

heritage.

Where, exactly, do we "celebrate diversity?" Labor Day? On that day we celebrate those

who have come to America, have joined our culture of the free market, democracy and

capitalism, and have made their way by successfully producing goods or supplying

services for others who have done the same. It is a celebration of assimilation, not of

diversity.

Has America been made stronger by diversity? Yes -- but only following assimilation of

the people bringing the diverse thoughts and ideas. We don't celebrate diversity - at least

we never have - for its own sake. We have always been about merit, and that is what is

celebrated by the American Dream.

In one moment, mainstream America is told that America always has been made strong

by our diversity. In the next, that America is a country of white racists and male sexists

who have ruined the continent, “native” peoples, and the world at large. These

accusations flow from the same people. How can the same mind hold at the same time

these competing thoughts?

The argument, however, works both ways.

Immigrants from other cultures have brought much to our country. Immigrants are the

reason America is now and will continue to be a vibrant economy as the remainder of the

West slips into economic irrelevancy. How does one natter about closing American

borders and yet comment positively on our economic dynamism? How does one mind

hold these competing thoughts?

Immigration is not the issue; it is lack of assimilation, which returns us to

“multiculturalism.”

What matters not is diversity of skin color, physical characteristics over which none of us

have control; what matters are new and diverse goals and new and different ideas on how

to achieve them. Immigrants bring to our shores these new and diverse goals and ideas, in

short, their cultures. They learn from those already here of our goals and ideas, our

culture. Some ideas new to each cultural group are accepted, some are rejected. From this

amalgam comes a successful culture, country and people: A successful culture, not

multiple successful cultures. (This once was called a “melting pot,” but that has lost

favor.)

Outside America the West is in serious and probably irreversible economic decline. The

native non-American West is depopulating itself in a historical race to extinction.

Economic irrelevancy is but a step on the path already chosen, and from which no return

seems likely. In large part this is due to a lack of assimilation of new ideas, and the

requirement for convenience over racial sustainability.

If one is charged higher and higher taxes to pay for more and more services for new

arrivals not assimilating into the culture and not making their way educationally and

economically, and if one has the convenience of state-funded abortion to lessen the

number of children and their economic impact on a family bearing this increasing burden

of taxation to support non-assimilating immigrants, racial sustainability loses out to

convenience.

Europe, through the submergence of cultures, independent economies and

decision-making into a monolithic federation yet to be fully birthed, but already showing

signs of totalitarianism, still pretends to relevancy, but the rest of the world knows this is

a sham. As it depopulates it will become more shrill, and more dangerous.

Some view Europe on its way to extinction as the model for a multicultural future.

Europe’s future may indeed be what is considered “multicultural,” by many, but that will

be due to the diminishment to insignificance of those who initially settled the lands and

created governments of laws, rights and liberties, and the rise of a non-native population

neither versed in, nor believing in, the Western rights and liberties “multiculturalists”

take for granted.

By and large, Conservative Americans have reached complete agreement with Dr.

King’s, “I have a dream” speech, easily one of the most important speeches in Western

History. By and large, Liberals still requiring evaluating success by the color of one’s

skin.

Which is the party of the “multiculturalist” preaching “diversity”? The party which

accepts and ignores physical differences and treasures a diversity of thought and culture

(what is culture but national thought?), or the party that rejects and ignores diversity of

thought and culture and treasures only physical differences? One would think the

“multiculturalist” would be the former. One would be wrong.

But is it really the color of one’s skin that ought to frame the diversity argument? Ought

it frame by default the multicultural argument? (Few argue that Sweden or England are

cultures to be emulated to make ourselves more “multicultural.” The argument for

multiculturalism rests on cultures of non-white peoples.)

But what does this mean in the political context of today?

Do “multiculturalists” support the denial of rights to women? No. Yet there are no

non-Western cultures that recognize these rights. Indeed, the half of the West living in

southern Europe and South America doesn’t support these rights. Demanding women’s

rights across the globe and across cultures is not “multiculturalism.” It is quite simply

American imperialism.

Do “multiculturalists” support the rights and liberties enshrined in our Constitution, rights

such as freedom of speech and assembly, to petition our government, to a speedy trial by

a jury of our peers without being forced to incriminate ourselves? Of course they do.

There are no non-Western countries that support these rights, or many others of our

culture. Many western countries deny them, as well. Again, requiring of others what

American culture claims to be self-evident, and what American culture views as

absolutely basic, is not “multiculturalism.” It is American imperialism.

Others will vehemently deny these facts and call names, but they will be unable to tell

you why American rights and liberties (our culture) ought to be replicated everywhere

across the globe, and why multiculturalism is a good thing, at the same time. This is the

same argument that our country is great because of diversity, but simultaneously racist

and sexist, applied on a global scale.

They will be unable to tell you why diverse peoples do everything they can, legal and

illegal, to come to our culture and leave behind theirs. These people will tell you

immigrants are not leaving behind their culture but are coming to America for a better

chance.

What provides this better chance is our culture. Other than our culture, what makes

America the destination of so many? Our weather?