ONCE AGAIN MULTICULTURALISM IS DEAD - DIVERSITY DOESN"T WORK

Think Asian Carp and Kudzu. Previous post on the subject Some things just aren't good to incorporate into a homogenized society. If you look at Europe as the test case for importing cheap labor from groups of people who have no interest in immersing themselves into the culture of the host country, you'd have to admit the test failed to ameliorate the goals. What has happened has been a chaotic clash of cultures. History could have taught this anyway, but evidently there are people who get into powerful positions in governments who have never studied history and have some unfounded and abstract idea of how to run the planet. This has been a costly mistake over the ages and especially recently for France, Germany, and now the Netherlands.

Netherlands Abandoning Multiculturalism At American Thinker today, Thomas Lifson reports:
"A new integration bill (covering letter and 15-page action plan), which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads: "The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people. In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role. With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society."

Let this be a harbinger of smart thinking to the coming leadership of America. The Progressive mantras of "Diversity," "Multicuralism,"and even "Social Justice" are ideas wrought in the halls of anti-culturalism studies in universities. Anti-culturalism and multiculturalism are two sides of the same coin. (two names for the same thing.) By placing the ideology of "multiculturalism" into a cohesive society with traditional morés and laws, you are, in total effect, eliminating cohesiveness and diluting a culture into incompatible factions, i.e. creating an anti-culture. When our forefathers gave us the freedom to associate, they meant for people of common interests to associate with each other, unfettered by unreasonable interference by government. What progressives have done is to force incompatible cultures into what was a cohesive culture and call it "Multiculturalism," or "Diversity."

Common interests could include many things, but France, Germany, and now the Dutch have learned that they have allowed immigrating populations into their countries who have little or no common interests with the host cultures. (We could have told them this from the lessons of the fall of the Roman Empire, but would they have listened?"

Now if we can only educate our leadership to take that lesson and apply it to our own country, we'd be light years ahead of the curve once again. Instead, we have historically illiterate imbeciles requiring "Diversity" and "Multicultural" programs in order to qualify for government grants and subsidies, using our own tax dollars to implement a deliberate destruction of the American culture. Yes, there was, and hopefully still is, an American culture based on a cohesive determination of our laws and morés....and no, this does not mean we can't enjoy some different cuisine in American restaurants or a dance review by some talented Russians or Irish. The line of demarcation inevitably comes when mass chaos of too many competing values, laws, languages, and morés ensues when concentrated in one place. Hopefully, some adult with wisdom arrives to draw both a figurative and literal line in the sand. That is what has happened in Europe. The mistakes of "Multicuralism" and "Diversity" are what they are trying to put the brakes on in Europe. If only our country would get the message.

Well, today I congratulate the Dutch for recognizing the error of their ways and doing something to try to reverse the tide. I guess the question remains on what to do with all of those people who refuse to assimilate. We'll be watching.

KUDZU, THE ASIAN CARP, AND THE CORDOBA MOSQUE

Multi-cultural and diversity are the group think buzz words of the day.  In fact, the government is so busy forcing multi-culturalism and diversity, you would think that those are the most important sociological tenets ever dreamed up by the genius of man.  Sociology used to be the study of societies.  Now it has become social engineering of societies through the force of governments.  Strange things happen when men force incompatible groups together.  Like putting alligators in a room filled with puppies.  Diversity becomes a nightmare.  Predatory instincts are not to be denied, yet social engineers keep insisting on putting predators in the room with likely victims.

What, in heaven's name, do Kudzu and Asian Carp have to do with the Cordoba Mosque, you may be asking?  The tags multi-cultural and diversity assume compatibility.  That assumption is, as my Dad would say, making an ass out of U and Me. 

In our local area we fight Kudzu vines every year which are voraciously eating up fields and trees.  Initially it was thought that introducing Kudzu into the U.S. would be a good thing.  

 US Forest Service Site:

Description: Kudzu, a perennial vine native to Japan and China, was first introduced into the USA in 1876 and was actively promoted by the government as a "wonderplant", It expanded to cover over 1 million hardwoods by 1946 and well over 2 million hardwoods today. When Kudzu invades a forest, it prevents the growth of young hardwoods and kills off other plants. Kudzu causes damage to powerlines, and even overwhelms homes, Kudzu has invaded important protected areas, requiring significant investment of management resources, The management response to date outside the protected areas has been insufficient to deal with this very significant threat.

 How did Asian carp get so close to the Great Lakes?

Two species of Asian carp -- the bighead and silver -- were imported by catfish farmers in the 1970's to remove algae and suspended matter out of their ponds. During large floods in the early 1990s, many of the catfish farm ponds overflowed their banks, and the Asian carp were released into local waterways in the Mississippi River basin.

The carp have steadily made their way northward up the Mississippi, becoming the most abundant species in some areas of the River.

Chicago Area waterways map showing location of carp barrier (Illustration courtesy of Phil Moy, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute)

The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, where the barrier is being constructed, connects the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes via the Illinois River.

Asian carp, which have steadily moved toward Chicago since the 1990s, present a challenge for scientists and fish biologists. The fish are aggressive eaters, consuming as much as 40 percent of their body weight a day in plankton, and frequently beat out native fish for food, threatening those populations.

 

Asian Carp Czar Named 

On a conference call today with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin and other congressional leaders, President Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality announced the selection of John Goss to lead the near $80 million, multi-pronged federal attack against Asian carp.

 Untold millions of dollars are spent on defending our country against predators.  Be they plants, fish, or people, we are having to use our resources to fight off continuing attacks from incompatible entities that were mistakenly introduced into our society out of naiveté.  We used to have an immigration policy that was protective of the United States interests.  All bets are off now.  Now the elites think you can introduce anyone and anything into our environment without consequences.  That is naive and dangerous.  How many billions have been spent over the last two decades trying to fend off or appease the Muslim culture?  How many of our soldiers have died while liberating Muslims from their own ill-made circumstances?  

The Cordoba Mosque in NYC is a perfect example of what is not at all compatible with our culture.  In fact, religious freedom is being used to introduce an incompatible, I would say predatory, group of people into our society.  Muslims are not compatible with the American system of government.  Muslims desire to have their Sharia laws become the laws of our land.  They are insistent upon implementing those laws.  Their "holy book" tells them it is perfectly acceptable to lie and deceive in order to gain their ends.  The Imam Rauf pushing this mosque is stating, unequivocally, a threat that the mosque will be built in the Ground Zero location or heads will roll.  He is saying the Koran burning demonstration in Florida will bring attacks.  Paraphrasing there, but you get the picture.  What about that is compatible with our American way of life?  What is being set up is a moral conflict between America and Islam, which is exactly what radical Muslims want.  Is our plan to just nicely and politely invite them?  "Sure, come on in."  Do puppies invite alligators into the room?  Imam Rauf is demanding they walk right in ....or what? Threats and more threats.

The best of intentions are the road to hell, as the saying goes.  It is inviting disaster to try to incorporate an incompatible society into our own.  Suicidal.