MULTICULTURALISM HAS FAILED

England’s Prime Minister recently told the world community what common sense Americans have been saying all along: multiculturalism doesn’t work.

In fact, one reason why the United States of America has been exceptional among nations is because we followed a policy that was anathema to multiculturalism; it’s called “unity,” or as we codified it, “One Nation under God”. As long as immigrants came here to adopt a new “American” national identity, we advanced in peace and prosperity as no other nation has ever known. Unity has always been our strength, not diversity. Diversity contributes to weakness, not strength. Try putting an army on the field with men and women of different languages and cultures and see how victorious you will be. From the times of the Tower of Babel, unity has always indicated strength, and diversity, weakness.

We’ve had our experiment with diversity, and it has failed. Minority groups have not prospered because they did not assimilate. English is the language of success. It is to our shame that we have failed to teach immigrants English, and as a result we have locked them away in ethnic enclaves, a permanent underclass that will not advance, because they will not be competitive unable to speak English.

If we’re going to preserve peace and prosperity for our posterity we must discard the promotion of multiculturalism and go back to teaching American values. In fact, it’s time to go back to what Teddy Roosevelt told us in 1907:

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality 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 person's becoming in every facet 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... 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. “

It worked then; it will work now. Let’s do it.