Multiculturalism and the Self-Liquidation of Europe
Multiculturalism and the Self-Liquidation of EuropeEurope has long ago lost any real interest in assimilating its immigrants. Indeed, it has rejected the very idea of assimilation. To induct others into European culture — why, that kind of cultural self-assertion would be just like the Nazis. Instead, Europe has gone out of its way to "accommodate" other cultures — by encouraging immigrants to live for decades sealed off in their own enclaves. What touched off the recent riots, for example, was not a heavy-handed presence of the police and French authorities in Muslim neighborhoods. It was the fact that the police had, until recently, treated these areas as "no-go zones," left to be run by the Muslims themselves. It was the re-assertion of some degree of French control after years of Multiculturalist tolerance that set off the riots. It is not just that French Muslims need to assimilate into French culture. It is that there has to be a self-confident culture for them to assimilate to. One cannot assimilate with self-annihilation.
In a nation like America, the acceptance of Multiculturalism leads to a kind of slow rot, as the distinctive ideas at the root our culture — the Enlightenment ideals of our Founding Fathers — slowly die from neglect. But such a nation can ride on its previous cultural momentum for generations, taking many years to collapses from within — and that gives us a long time to fight Multiculturalism before it is too late. A nation like France, which finds itself host to a large minority of religiously strident Muslim immigrants thoroughly untouched by Enlightenment intellectual and political traditions, will not be allowed the luxury of a death by slow rot. It must act much more quickly to save itself. It is in the streets of the Parisian suburbs that one can now see the ultimate effects of Multiculturalism — and sense a premonition of the dark and murderous future that lays ahead for Europe.
Florida: Students may be required to take Spanish
posted by Unknown @ 12:25 AM
4 Comments:
i agree that multiculturalism is a main culprit, as it is multiculturalism which let immigrants off the hook for not assimilating.
now, if you demand assimilation, too many people think your a neanderthal.
here's the sad thing - and Seinfeld said it best about the French:
"They fought harder to keep euroDisney out than they did to keep the NAZIS out!"
The French fight harder to protect their French culture from American pop culture than they have the insidious attack from within, from the Muslims.
If it is true that 50% of the french in cities undeer the age 25 are Muslim, then perhaps it is too late already.
Buit I sure wish that Chirac and /or Villepin would resign so Sarkozy could at least give the French a fighting chance!
Love the blog!
I wouldn't take any bets on this program ever being implemented.
The implementation of Spanish classes in K-2 is not necessarily indicative of multiculturalism, but could be for just an obvious educational advantage. Of course, given the political makeup of many of the members of the education system, I wouldn't bet against multiculturalism as the reason.
When I was a kid in the 50s in Louisiana, French was taught in K-2 for the obvious historical and cultural reasons. Just as many schools in southern U.S. border states have had Spanish requirements in elementary schools for decades.
But again, I do not automatically trust the reasoning behind the implementation of Spanish classes in Florida. The multicultural mindset of the teachers union and the current university education graduates is enormous.
BTW, in Latin American countries, many, many schools do have an English requirement.
As Don Miguel said, they may want to teach Spanish for the wrong reasons. I do think a second major language should be a compulsory subject though in which case Spanish would be the obvious choice in this region.
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