Why They Won't Assimilate

American Thinker ^ | May 21, 2007 | Selwyn Duke

[neverdem]

Today's immigrants are not assimilating into our culture.  Ted Kennedy's Immigration Reform Act of 1965 has created a situation in which 85 percent of our immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia. This portends the destruction of the western civilization that has given us everything we hold dear, from our  freedom to our prosperity, not for reasons of race, but because of circumstances at least partly created by Americans ourselves.

Assimilation is not a process magically initiated upon setting foot on American terra firma.  Rather, it only occurs when one or both of two conditions are met: The foreign elements must have a desire to assimilate or the host nation must place pressure on them to do so.  Unfortunately, neither is the case today because both immigrants and native-born Americans are far different than they once were. 

I've pointed out that a nation allows its stabilizing majority to disappear at its own peril (unprecedented Third World immigration has reduced America's European-heritage population from almost 90 percent to about 66 percent in just a little more than four decades).  But a critic could rightly mention that white Americans weren't always viewed so monolithically.  When our nation saw a huge influx of Irish, Italian and German immigrants, there was often great group conflict; ethnic slurs passed lips and fights were not uncommon (amazing how they negotiated this period without "hate crime" laws, huh?).  Yet, there was a difference.

Immigrants: Today vs. Yesteryear 

Today's M&M influx (Moslems and Mexicans) is distinguished from previous immigrant waves by a sense of entitlement.  A Zogby poll found that 58 percent of Mexicans believe California and the Southwest rightly belong to them.  Although this belief is bred by a tendentious view of history, it doesn't change the end result.  It has spawned groups such as Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), which advocates conquering the Southwest in the name of Mexico. More significantly, it causes many average Mexicans to have no compunction about imposing their culture and language on the country that has so generously given them succor.

Where Mexicans exhibit ethnic patriotism, Moslems manifest religious chauvinism.  Far too many pious Moslems believe they have been enjoined to impose their faith on others by any means necessary; this is why they will unabashedly demand concessions, such as their own dormitories at colleges and an Arabic public school in New York City.  It's also why they have fought for the right to use sharia law to settle civil disputes in Canada.  

This lies in stark contrast to the behavior of most of yesteryear's immigrants.  Like anyone else, they certainly felt comfortable in the bosom of their own subculture; yet, they knew they were in another's land and never viewed accommodation by their host nation as a birthright, and any ethnic patriotism harbored was often trumped by the dream of becoming American.  Unfortunately, today's immigrants' dream is often our nightmare, one from which we could arise if only, if only, if only....

Looking at the American in the Mirror   

Walt Kelly wrote, "We have met the enemy and he is us."  The truth is that when assigning blame, our feet are where the majority of it must lie.  There was a time when Americans, like most nationalities, took pride in their culture and defended it with manly fortitude.  Today, though, after decades of imbuing the modern mind with the "Hey, hey, ho, ho, western culture's gotta go!" mentality, this is no longer the case.  Too many of us have imbibed the multiculturalist malt, with its evenhanded principle stating that others have a right to their cultures and we have a right to them, too.  But this philosophical shift has been addressed before, so let's discuss a nuts and bolts aspect of the problem.

Many of us understand how government actively thwarts assimilation by pandering to foreign elements.  Our government will print official documents in other languages (the standard California driver's license test is available in 32 of them) just so those without enough respect to learn our national common tongue can collect our national treasure and cast votes for those who lavish it upon them.  But this isn't where governmental complicity in this problem ends. 

Traditionally, Americans never relied on government to achieve most goals, and ensuring assimilation was no exception.  Many years ago, for instance, if a person insisted on dressing like an advertisement for the Middle Ages, didn't learn the language or sought to impose strange beliefs in the workplace, he would have been fired or not hired in the first place.  What this means is that the Moslem clerks and cab drivers who, respectively, won't ring up pork and won't pick up passengers with alcohol or seeing-eye dogs would have either changed their ways or returned to where ways don't change.  This enforcement of tradition through individual initiative is what almost every non-western country does and makes sense.  If you're so enamored of your native ways, stay in your native land. 

If you tried this today, though, you'd receive a treatment from the proctologist of government bureaucracies, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  Yes, because freedom of association has been trumped by lawless judges, citizens have lost control over their businesses, rental properties and, in many cases, organizations.  Privately owned and financed entities can no longer determine who receives paychecks, who will be served and who will be rented to, thus removing the social pressure to conform that the common man would naturally apply via the exercise of his values in his castle.  Likewise, local school boards have been robbed of the right to set dress codes and behavior standards reflecting the surrounding community.  What this means is now you can't refuse to hire a cross-dressing Columbian from Cartagena.  Ah, it sounds almost Jeffersonian...  almost.  We've now traded liberty for perversity.

America is being erased.  The stabilizing majority that forged her unique culture is being eroded through the importation of culturally imperialistic forces by treasonous politicians.  And traitors they are, and be not faint-hearted in saying so.  After all, if this happened anywhere but in western nations, the lamentation over this cultural imperialism would be staggering.  Just imagine if the majority population of Nigeria or Cambodia were rapidly being replaced with a European one.  The only question would be whether the nation they hailed from would be targeted by only stupid bureaucrats or also smart bombs.

A wise person once said a definition of insanity is ". . . doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."  This aphorism has been attributed variously to Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein, and for all I know, Chief Seattle. Given that we have a greatly diminished sense of national identity, Moslem terrorists blending into a multicultural mish-mash, Spanish supplanting English, and Mexican flags going up while American ones come down, should we really stay the course?  The M&M invasion sympathizers may call me names, but I'll simply render a diagnosis: They're insane.  They have turned immigration into an institution.  It's time for it to be institutionalized.

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[neverdem]

Three strikes might work here. The first two were the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 and the 1986 Amnesty law. If this crap passes, it will be over, IMHO.

[dfwgator]

When our nation saw a huge influx of Irish, Italian and German immigrants, there was often great group conflict; ethnic slurs passed lips and fights were not uncommon (amazing how they negotiated this period without "hate crime" laws, huh?). Yet, there was a difference.

Reminds me of the line from "Blazing Saddles":

"We'll give some land to the N@ggers and the Chinks, but not the Irish!"

[TexasCajun]

Government access in Spanish? Si.

Business in Spanish, press #2? Si.

Little Mexico communities? Si.

[snowrip]

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[gubamyster]

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[MittFan08]

“Ted Kennedy’s Immigration Reform Act of 1965 has created a situation in which 85 percent of our immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia.”

The 1965 Act was an abomination, but let’s be honest- not many Europeans would be coming here even if we had more liberal immigration policies. Their birth rates are way down, and too many of them are enamored of their own welfare states in Europe to come to the US and a more competitive economy.

Just look at Ireland- at one time they were having babies left and right, had a poor economy, and America was the safety valve. Same with Germany. If we favored Europeans more in immigration, some Irish and Germans would come here, but nothing remotely comarable to the old days.

And I’m not sure how much we want Russian or eastern European immigrants- the Russian immigrants we have tend to be disproportionately involved in fraud and crime. They are used to the easy buck and corruption of the East Bloc and bring that with them.

So yes, we’ve done a horrible job passing laws, but it’s also true that the pool of desirable immigrants has gone down.

[Dilbert San Diego]

In 1965, Ted Kennedy said that the immigration bill passed that year would NOT result in major changes to the ethnic composition of our population. Clearly he was wrong.

Why isn’t Ted Kennedy held to account for his major error with his 1965 legislation on immigration? He was so far off in his calculations of what would happen then. Why should we believe what he says now on this subject? His ‘65 bill unleashed a huge wave of immigration from the 3rd world that continues today. Why isn’t he blamed in part for the situation we face today?

Is he blameless just because he’s a good Democrat?

[SE Mom]

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[TexasCajun]

Both my US senators are against the bill.

I called my US Rep. Nick Lampson,Democrat and gave my opinion, not sure what he'll do.

(Tom Delay's old seat. ..thanks Tom!)

[acapesket]

I called EVERY Republican Senator this morning bar 2. Guess who is not taking calls?
Specter and Martinez! Que pasa?
With persistence I got all the others and I faxed them as well.
Keep up the GOOD FIGHT!

[mtbopfuyn]

I found the article disgusting and it made me sick to my stomach... because it’s all so very true.

[ozzymandus]

Why should they assimilate? They are constantly pandered to in their own language.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Both my US senators are against the bill.

Unfortunately my senator is a traitor. And an idiot.

[stephenjohnbanker]

B T T T

[snowrip]

Yeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaa!

Just started working on my local reps!

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Why should they assimilate? They are constantly pandered to in their own language”

This is why thet WON’T assimulate!!!!

[bedolido]

I am the Borg! You will be assimilated! Resistance is futile

[jpl]

Yep. I wish that I could add something, but Duke hit a grand slam right out of the ballpark here.

[kittymyrib]

It is incredible that after Kennedy’s disastrous immigration bill of 1965 and his lousy in-put into the failed Simpson-Mazoli bill of 1986, the US Senate should allow this two-time loser come up with yet a third losing proposition...and that McCain would actually attach his name to this monstrosity! That misjudgment alone disqualifies him from the presidency. With his rancid history, Kennedy should not be let anywhere near an immigration bill.

[Buffettfan]

Liberalism has taught people to despise American culture.