By Selwyn Duke

In the piece I recently wrote about the threat posed by immigration, both illegal and
legal, I mentioned that today’s immigrants are not assimilating into
our culture. And, as I pointed out, since 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.

With Moslems and Mexicans on the march from Maine to Monterey,
this should be obvious. Yet, the gravity of this situation still eludes
many, sedated as they are with bread and circuses. So let’s discuss
assimilation.

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 white 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

The M&M invasion (Moslems and Mexicans) is distinguished from
previous immigrant waves by a feeling 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 yesterday’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 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 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 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 Colombian from
Cartagena on the basis that he is a cross-dressing Colombian 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
European one. The only question would be whether the nation they hailed
from would be targeted by only stupid bureaucrats or also smart bombs.

It’s time for at least a ten-year moratorium on immigration. I
know, I know, “What radicalism!” bellows the left. But since this is
the set that extols the virtue of constant change, even telling us
“truth” changes, it’s ironic. In the world of the leftist Utopian
vision, immigration is the one constant in an ever-changing Universe.

Albert Einstein once said a definition of insanity is “. . .
doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different
results.” 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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