DIVERSITY THY NAME IS CHAOS (PART ONE)
We don’t hear a lot of talk about diversity nowadays, which is surprising with the ascendancy of half-black Senator Barack Hussein Obama to within a hair’s breadth of the presidency of the United States. It’s as if the concept is being played down for some reason.
(For those so inclined, do see http://www.diversityinc.com/public/3962.cfm, http://www.diversitycentral.com/, and http://www.diversityinc.com/public/3681.cfm?gclid=CN3TnOiJ8ZQCFQVxFQodMCClrQ, to understand what America’s “diversity” lobby is up to.)
I’m not a perfect exemplar of diversity. I believe in it but what I believe isn’t the contemporary notion of diversity. We live in a diverse nation, a nation that seems to grow more diverse every year, or every month. To attempt to deny that is to attempt to deny what America is. However, my definition of diversity is different from most definitions.
Usually equated with other hot button topics, such as multiculturalism and pluralism, perhaps “diversity” is becoming so ingrained in the collective thought of the United States that references to it are passe’. I suspect it’s been back-burnered for other reasons and that, should Obama win on November 4th, Americans will be hearing a great deal more of the word.
The chief problem with diversity in America is that it’s predicated on a false assumption, namely that diversity/multiculturalism/pluralism is what has made us a great nation. In fact, it will destroy the United States or, at best, reduce our country to the level of a Guatemala or Tanganyika which would effectively end us.America has long been called a melting pot, implying that the millions of immigrants who have come to our country over the centuries have melted into our national stew and have magically became Americans rather than continue to be Irishman or Lithuanians or Chinese. That once was the case, to an extent, but in actuality we’ve never melted into the same stew. America is more a conglomeration of national stews, all of which have added to our inimitable flavor: We are all uniquely Americans at the same time we are products of our heritage. At least we used to be.
America’s diversity is unusual and exceptional. Immigrants can flock to Germany and France and Japan and earn citizenship but they never really become Germans or French or Japanese. They always will be Nigerians or Indonesians or Pakistanis residing in those nations even after generations. In the United States, those same people, or their relatives, have the opportunity to become full-fledged Americans after demonstrating that they wished to become full-fledged Americans.
My father was an immigrant. He loved Ireland but he came to love the United States as much as he did the Olde Sod.