MULTICULTURALISM & DIVERSITY: NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD!
Anyone may look across the world landscape over the last 1,000 years to witness that racial conflict injects itself into every aspect of human life.
Such and such a group hates some other collection of people. Religious groups bomb other religious groups such as the Protestants and the Catholics in Ireland. Muslims hate the Jews in the Middle East with thousands of killings.
You never hear about racism in mono-ethnic societies like China or Japan. Why? Everyone enjoys a similar background of values and cultural cohesion.
In America, with hundreds of different ethnic groups, especially black, white, brown, red and yellow, we exist in a tenuous but tolerant dance guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
It’s not been easy with Jim Crow Laws, the KKK, Watts Riots, separate but equal, anger of Malcolm X, white flight to the suburbs, smoldering and seething ghettoes and Pastor Jeremiah Wright in Chicago with “God D*** America….”
In 1965, Senator Teddy Kennedy created an even more tense society by immigrating millions from incompatible cultures that now call America home: Muslims, Hmongs, Koreans, Somalians, Ethiopians, etc. Additionally, he created even greater racial tension from competing and growing cultures that fail to assimilate into America as Americans.
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A single lifetime is too short for most people to understand that world demographics are in continuous flux.
Nations prosper and grow faster than others. Growing populations require new land to live on. Since Europe is the smallest continent (“semi-continent”) it is no wonder that colonising the world was the inevitable result of European prosperity.
It follows that under-utilized land found in the Americas, Africa and Australia were discovered by this expanding civilization. Expansion, or “colonialism” was therefore a natural and inevitable process.
The methods and attitudes of the time were part of the natural process of evolution, and to judge them by today’s standards is disingenuous and hypocritical.
There is no reason for the descendants of those settlers of the new world to submit to accusations of “stealing land” and “exploiting natives”. The efficiency and growth of the European civilisation should be praised, not condemned.
Today, the European descendants of the settlers of America, Africa and Australia should learn from past mistakes, but be allowed to enjoy their culture with pride. They should enjoy freedom of association with their own culture without being branded “racists” and “white supremacists”. For those who prefer to have their own schools and neighbourhoods, this should be granted without having to feel guilty about it.