Multi-culti

When will some people learn? This example of eliminating the viewpoint of the many for the benefit of the few is another in a long list. At some point you have to realize that the values of our forefathers and support for the way of life that those values entailed are good things and worth nurturing.

The article linked above sounds, well, almost like the Dutch.

The troubled case of the Netherlands is the most interesting, however, because the Dutch - like the British - said their aim was a multicultural society composed of equals.

wrote William Pfaff (link here). His point was that the Dutch remained a closed-minded Calvinistic society and that the Muslim immigrant population rejected their offered multiculturalism. In the US, I believe, there is more tolerance. But there also needs to be integration: learn English, you are here and English is the language; accept the beliefs of others (even if you do not share them) without fear that those beliefs will be imposed on you; acknowledge that your freedom to act ends at the tip of my nose; respect the law; etc, etc. Again, from Pfaff's article:

This specifically Dutch tragedy was created by good intentions combined with false assumptions about the human, social and political realities of cultural difference. After the Nazi catastrophe, racial and cultural distinctions were interpreted as cause for discrimination and conflict, and accordingly were not only avoided but denied. Certain illusions about the nature of man were - and are - promoted. People in the West want to continue to believe in these illusions, despite all that history has done to disprove them.

They include the belief that the core values of the Western democracies are innate, and that education, the liberalization of political and social institutions, and political action can liberate these values among people who don't yet recognize them. It is believed that everyone is headed not only toward liberal democracy but also toward secularism or religious indifference.
Western political (and even economic) values are said to be universal, valid for all societies now and in the future. Hence the unity of mankind is only a matter of time. The moral complexity of the human condition in the past is ignored, or is simply unknown.

It all adds up to a naïve version of the belief in inevitable human progress that arose during the French Enlightenment and has inspired virtually every Western political ideology we have known since - and that history has repeatedly disproved.

It really is ok to feel that some things are better than others. The Declaration of Independence is a fine document worthy of study in our schools even though the words 'God' and 'Creator' appear in it. And, by God, it should be ok to sing Christmas carols at that school as well. And if someone is offended by that concert, perhaps they should spend the time elsewhere.