Diversity is America’s greatest strength
by Hugh Holub on Jun. 30, 2011, under politicsThere would appear to be a very loud group of people in the country that don’t see America as including liberals, Blacks, Mexicans, Jews, homosexuals, uppity women and bunches of other people who are not like them.
The diversity of our society scares the bejeezus out of them.
But the diversity of our society is our greatest strength.
America was not created to be a white Christian nation. It was created to protect diversity and it has worked.
We have attracted all the misfits from all over the world who didn’t have a place to practice their religions or pursue their individual destinies.
America has been the place where people could pursue their dreams.
We are the land of freedom and opportunity.
America is a rich tapestry of everything that is the best of humanity.
So rather than being afraid of that diversity, we must embrace it and protect it.
There’s a segment of our population that is very loud and claims to be the majority.
They are very obviously intolerant of anyone that disagrees with their vision of America. Our Constitution gives us the right to disagree. Call us idiots or worse, but we are not going to be silenced.
So what if a lot of people “broke the law” by coming to America. The point is they got here because our immigration system is broken.
We didn’t have a legal way for people to join our experiment in freedom and opportunity. Lets fix the problem and keep the light of freedom shining.
“Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand,” she wrote,
A mighty woman with a torch…
From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome…
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!”…
“Give me your tired, and your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free…
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
—Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty
June 30th, 2011 on 10:56 pm
I disagree. I think our strength is our freedom. Our being a free people enables us to be so diverse. The power of being a free people is something that inspires everyone, thus leading to our diversity; as others come here aspiring to our way of life.
July 1st, 2011 on 12:38 am
Your first paragraph is mostly propagandist pap. You have diversity mixed up with the authentic ‘Melting Pot’. Diversity and Multiculturalism are tearing our unique republic apart at the seams. The latter two are the ingredients for the balkanization of the country. The great ‘Melting Pot’ is what made this nation great.
The difference in the theory of the two is that with the ‘Melting Pot’ people immigrate to the U.S. and become Americans in every sense of the word. They obey our laws, respect our American institutions and our Constitution and Flag, and become determined to learn the english language and not burden society, by seeking employment (getting a job) and being responsible citizens. Becoming proficient in the english language is basically a prerequisite for getting a decent job, understanding the above items and getting a good education. That’s not to say you can’t use another language at home or in a like group/gathering, nor does it mean you can’t prepare ethnic dishes and other ethnic dress, etc. These things have in fact enhanced the American Experience over the last 235 years or so.
Multiculturalism and Diversity are mainly tools that certain…people and organizations use to undermine the ‘Melting Pot’, for the purpose of changing the American system of governance, economy and culture (see culture war). It is used as a wedge, to separate and divide people along ethnic, cultural and income/assets, etc., lines and ultimately change the American mosaic into something that would be unrecognizable to the Founding Fathers, the first citizens of the U.S., or even the citizens who saw the 20th Century in.
The great debate today is not about immigration per se, but illegal immigration, notwithstanding that certain…people, organizations and politicians have purposely tried to obfuscate that fact.
Teddy Roosevelt had something to say about immigration though, speaking of the early part of the 20th Century:
“In the first place we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equity with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919.
“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or to leave the country,” he said in a statement to the Kansas City Star in 1918. “English should be the only language taught or used in the public schools.”
“We can have no “50-50″ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”
July 1st, 2011 on 2:49 am
This is all true but how does 30 million mexican peons help us. And according to the experts they will be a majority by 2050. Thats not a melting pot. Thats b******t. If we want to be like mexico and not the melting pot then we should do what we have to do.