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America’s Not as Divided as the Media Thinks
If you’ve flipped by the news any time in the past century, you’ve heard over and over and over again that America is a fetid cesspool filled with institutional racism, violent bigotry, and everyday intolerance. Multimillionaires protest the oppression of their race, silver spoon sophomores yank down statues, and media elites damn America for not being enlightened like our continental betters.
Yes, racism exists. Yes, slavery scars our history. Yes, Americans are imperfect. And yet…
America, both historically and currently, welcomes more cultures, nationalities, religions, and ethnicities than any nation anywhere at any time. It’s not even close. But focusing on the United States doesn’t profit those who would rather see us divided.
Published in General, Immigration
Objectively, the non-racist answer is not #1, as your article suggests. It is #2.
I assume you mean a white, native-French cab driver, not an immigrant one?
Denmark—I have more Danish cousins to consult on this—are very confused about what it means to be Danish. It’s pretty hard to see how you can lose Scandinavian-ness—Carl Larrson, Pippi Longstocking, hygge and God Jul, the nisse, the Lutheran churches with a model ship hanging above the and whatnot with a multi-cultural (not multi-ethnic or multi-colored, perhaps) society? And if you have, as Douglas Murray suggests, taken on (for no good reason) the burden of White Guilt, it seems bigoted merely to like (let alone insist upon) Scandinavian-ness.
Scandinavia is not very Lutheran anymore, and I don’t mean that in the same way that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is not very Lutheran anymore. (It never was evangelical — I don’t know who they think they’re kidding.) A decade or so ago, a friend from Sweden brought her kids over “to show them what a Lutheran Church looked like with people in it.”
Probably it’s just a coincidence, but all of the cab drivers I have had in many trips to France have been white native Frenchmen, and all of the cab drivers I have had in many trips to London have been white native Brits. None of the cab drivers I have had in New York have been white or native. And in 50 years of living in Los Angeles, I don’t recall that I ever got in a cab, so who knows.
We all know everybody lies about this.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2013/11/paradox-diverse-communities/7614/
We can pretend we all live in happy la la rainbow land, but our “diverse” , and again in parenthesis, “communities” have a much much lower rate of community trust and engagement.
When the left, schools, on one hand tells all white people that diversity is a strength and on the other hand tells all non-whites that they’re a separate community who must continually struggle against the “whites”, one of these two lies will break at some point. And they are both lies, diversity is nothing, and grievances will never achieve equality.
I’m not sure why any of this makes anyone sleep well at night.
And not to attack the readers here, but how many of us know fatal blood loss liberals who refer to towns like Newark as sketchy, dirty, or unsafe. They’ve trained themselves to act as if these qualities are a result of some unfortunate geographical features, the conditions of the public roads and housing, or for some reasons that are completely unknown and unknowable. Yet, here they are, using coded language, to express their distaste for diversity.
Five years ago I would have been here believing the same garbage everyone else seems to “want” to believe. But it’s not just not true. Diversity is not a strength. It is a weakness through and through.