Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
“Our diversity is our strength.” But is that cliché true? Where is the scientific, historical or empirical evidence for the proposition that the greater the religious, racial, tribal and ethnic diversity of a nation, the stronger it becomes? To put it mildly, this is not a universally held belief.
The first returns from the delayed census of 2020 are in, and they have made for celebratory headlines in the mainstream media.
Big takeaway: Between 2010 and 2021, the white American population declined in real and relative terms, with more deaths than live births, as the white share of the U.S. population fell from 63% to under 58%.
As The Washington Post reported, between 1990 and 2020:
Black Americans held at roughly 12% of the population. Hispanics doubled their share from 9% to almost 19%, and Asians went from less than 3% to more than 6%.
And white Americans? In those three decades, whites fell from three-fourths of the U.S. population to less than three-fifths.
Bottom line: Racially and ethnically, we are becoming an ever more diverse nation, which is causing general rejoicing among those who hold it as an article of faith that, “Our diversity is our strength.”
But is that cliche true? Where is the scientific, historical or empirical evidence for the proposition that the greater the religious, racial, tribal and ethnic diversity of a nation, the stronger it becomes?
To put it mildly, this is not a universally held belief.
Our great rival China, for example, obviously fears such diversity.
The ideology of China is communism, and rival belief systems such as Christianity and the Falun Gong are repressed, as are the democrats of Hong Kong. Conformity, not diversity, is the desired condition.
As for racial and ethnic diversity, Tibetans and Uyghurs are subjected to methods of forced assimilation that are regarded, and rightly so, as crimes against humanity and cultural and ethnic genocide.
But while China’s methods of suppressing diversity are often criminal, Beijing’s fears are not unjustified.
In Xinjiang, there are Uyghurs who seek to secede and establish a new nation of East Turkestan. Also, China saw up close what ethnic and tribal diversity did to its neighbor the Soviet Union.
Three decades ago, the USSR splintered along ethnic-national lines into 15 nations. Since then, Moscow has fought two wars to keep Chechnya from breaking free, battled Georgia to prevent its re-annexation of the ethnic enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and assisted a Russified minority in the Donbas in its drive to secede from Ukraine.
Last year, Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic, attacked and amputated the former Soviet republic of Armenia.
In Africa, tribal diversity has pulled Ethiopia apart again, with the Eritreans having seceded in 1993, and Tigray forces seeking to secede now.
Among the more diverse nations in the Middle East is Lebanon. Arab and Druze, Christian and Muslim, Sunni and Shia — its diversity has proven a factor in its disintegration and descent toward the status of a failed state.
But back to the USA.
Is America a stronger, better, more united nation and people than we were under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, when 90% of the U.S. population was of European descent, almost all spoke English, and African Americans were the largest and indeed virtually the only major minority?
How have our deepening racial and ethnic divisions strengthened us?
Consider the causes and issues that have been tearing us apart for the last year: George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, Defund the Police, Portland, critical race theory, white privilege, systemic racism, “The 1619 Project,” Robert E. Lee statues, voter suppression, Jim Crow 2.0, anti-Asian hate crimes.
Crossing our southern border today, in an invasion almost unresisted by the Biden administration, are migrants coming not only from Latin America but from Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Undeniably, these migrants, entering illegally in July at the rate of 220,000 that month, add to our racial and ethnic diversity.
But do their numbers and presence here add to our strength? Does their presence help make us a more perfect union?
The more diverse we have become, it seems, the less united we have become, even about public manifestations of patriotism — the American flag, the national anthem, the pledge of alliance. Nor do our history, holidays and heroes unite us as once they did.
But if 2 million migrants from all over the world, the anticipated number in President Joe Biden’s first year, are good for America, why not open the floodgates and bring in still more?
Is Europe made stronger and better as it is made more diverse from the migration from Africa and the Arab and Islamic world from across the Med?
From the visceral recoil of Europe’s peoples, the opposite seems true.
Greece, Italy and Spain use whatever means they can devise to prevent the peoples of the global South from coming northward into Europe.
Indeed, it is hard to find a country where religious, racial and ethnic diversity contribute more to its strength and unity than they do to the forces of division, separation and secession. Which is one reason why the U.N. General Assembly that began with 51 nations now has 193.
Racial, ethnic, tribal, ideological and cultural diversity are history’s wedges of national division, separation and secession, as we are discovering.
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Yes, nationalism.
I’m tattling. You just said a dirty word.
Too many White Christians make Jews nervous. Happy White people make Jews feel alienated. Something had to be done.
Their animosity toward White Christians is more dangerous than others’ because it’s more consistently and insidiously weaponized. A good example is how they use popular culture to calumnize white men, attributing to them the sins of others, as told in this column
They’re also a little harder to detect lately, as intermarriage and reduced adherence to naming conventions have many more Jews bearing Christian-sounding names. Matt Yglesias is the most obvious, but Celine Robinson (in Coulter’s column) sounds innocuous at first hearing. Reminds me of the Jackie Mason joke about a kid named Crucifix Finkelstein. Love me some Jackie Mason. Also Stephen Miller.
All that “Diversity is our Strength” bullshit,is just weak people’s virtual signaling. They are horrified at the prospect of being seen as a rasssicist. Will never see the truth.
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I was raised with that whole melting pot thinking. The military was also like this, we all wear the same uniform. We all live here and are all Americans. Naturalized citizens know this better than people born and raised here. For the racists here my family has talked about the animosity of different groups in Europe, it divides people and caused problems every time. There sure is a lot of ignorant racist folks here in the comment section. I see it on many sites and chat and comments sections I visit. Mostly white people spewing this stupidity. I’m really not awake yet so take it as you will. Coffee time!
A lib buddy of mine got really mad at me for downplaying the danger of Mr. Viking Hat sitting in Pelosi’s throne, for saying the FBI instigated much of that stuff on January 6th, and for asserting that not only was the 2020 election rigged, but that the Democrat Party has been rigging elections wherever they could for 150 years.* He said “I’d like to think this is a fair country where things are done by the rules.”
We would all like to believe all sorts of things that aren’t true.
* The Dems simply have a greater intrinsic ability to cheat in elections, since they control the cities. It’s a lot harder for Republicans to stuff ballot boxes in rural areas with 60/40 partisan GOP majorities.
I hope you encouraged him the take The Shot.
The word nation derives from the Latin word for “giving birth”. A propositional nation is like propositional fatherhood. Only idiots accept it.
We’re nation of ideas as the cucks at the GOP like to say.
nation (n.)
c. 1300, nacioun, “a race of people, large group of people with common ancestry and language,” from Old French nacion “birth, rank; descendants, relatives; country, homeland” (12c.) and directly from Latin nationem (nominative natio) “birth, origin; breed, stock, kind, species; race of people, tribe,” literally “that which has been born,” from natus, past participle of nasci “be born” (Old Latin gnasci), from PIE root *gene- “give birth, beget,” with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups.
Incidentally this issue was precisely spelled out in the preamble of the constitution:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to *** ourselves and our Posterity *** , do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
That, what is gained at great risk and effort is cherished – and then freely given away by the idiot children who inherited it.
I normally enjoy Mr. Buchanan’s columns, but he’s way off base here. Diversity is not a strength, it is a hate crime and a blood libel against Christian-European Americans. Diversity + Proximity = CONFLICT.