During our last era of high immigration, remembered now as the “Ellis Island” age, our leaders would use the Fourth of July to stump for something once quaintly known as Americanization. Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Louis Brandeis — they all did it, with stirring speeches about bringing new immigrants fully into the American dream.
Presidential candidates, take note. One of the best ways to honor and safeguard our independence today is to start a debate on patriotic assimilation.
For centuries, America welcomed succeeding surges of immigrants with an invitation to join a unique American culture that includes specific principles and virtues. Then, in the 1970s, our elites decided to reverse course, and started promoting sectarianism.
We’ve never really had a debate on what is nothing less than a complete overhaul of the organizing principle of this most diverse of nations. The decisions that led us here were bureaucratic and incremental. Congress passed a law here, federal agencies issued a rule there, and the courts made decisions hither and yonder.
Before we knew it, we had shifted from more than two centuries of perfecting the melting pot to a system of adversarial multiculturalism. Rather than welcoming legal immigrants as new members of our national family, today’s coercive diversity works differently: Immigrants are immediately categorized into bureaucratic, pan-ethnic “minority” groups such as “Hispanic” or “Asian,” each with an ascribed set of supposed cultural norms to which they are expected to conform.
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First of all we need an honest congressional body. They are thugs,molesters gay, even illegal. Yet they all turn their head. Secondly. Get rid of the UNITED ASAP! ! USELESS not to mention all the money we give them so the ones in charge keep and they hate us for it. Lastly, put a freaking wall up on both north and south boarders.
ReplyDeletethe original immigrants were almost all white and they might as well have been labeled as slaves,i.e,indentured servants,with no life of their own ,having to cater to the mill and whims of their master until there servitude[sentence} was up lokking back you can see how dispair did not stop them from creating this great county of ours the world owes you nothing but air to breathe and try to make an existence of your own no one should expect a handout when they are healthy and able to work the welfare and irs systems need to be changed,but as long as there are crooked politicians just looking fo votes and to fill their pockets ,it will never happen
ReplyDeleteYour right. My grandmother came over as a servant. The blacks don't care the Irish and English were the first slaves brought here. Do you see any ethnic group cry for generations because of it. That's why the blacks will never get ahead. Rather whine and cry instead of getting off your butt to help yourself.
DeleteIt's a good thing Jesus Christ didn't have to climb any walls to preach in the different areas when He was on earth. We might still be hating each other if He had.....oh, wait.
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