the world has been multicultural for
centuries before this word was coined
moreover it has been multicultural in a
very real and practical way directly the
opposite of the way being urged by
today's multiculturalism cult
the very paper on which these words are
written was invented in china as was the
art of printing
the letters come from ancient rome and
the numbers from india via the arabs
all this is being written by a man whose
ancestors came from africa while
listening to music by a russian composer
even leaders of nations are not
necessarily from those nations
themselves napoleon was not french
stalin was not russian and hitler was
not german
crops have been as multicultural as
people
much of the world's rubber comes from
malaysia but the malaysian rubber trees
themselves came from seeds brought from
brazil
the cocoa grown in nigeria and the
potatoes grown in ireland likewise both
originated in the western hemisphere
before columbus arrived
a list of all the crops technology and
ideas that have spread from one people
or one nation to another would be a list
of most of the crops technologies or
ideas in the world
the reason why all these things spread
was quite simply that some things were
considered better than others and people
wanted the best they could get
this is completely the contrary to the
philosophy of the multiculturalism cult
where things are not better or worse but
just different
yet people around the world do not
simply celebrate diversity they pick and
choose which of their own cultural
features they want to keep and which
they want to dump in favor of something
better from somebody else
when europeans first discovered paper
and printing from china they did not
celebrate diversity they stopped giving
themselves writer's cramp from copying
scrolls and started letting the printing
presses do the work
when american indians saw horses for the
first time after europeans brought them
here they did not celebrate diversity
they started riding off to hunt instead
of walking
everything from automobiles to
antibiotics has spread around the world
because people wanted the best they
could get not the inefficient ways that
the multiculturalist cult calls living
in harmony with nature
too often before modern medicine was
accepted that meant dying young instead
of living to a healthy old age
people preferred to live even if it
wasn't in harmony with nature
the issue is not what i say or what the
multiculturalists say
the issue is what millions of human
beings actually do when they have a
choice
around the world they treat cultural
features as things that help them cope
with life not museum pieces to ooh and
ah over
when they find their own ways of doing
some things better they keep them when
they find someone else's ways of doing
other things better they use them and
drop what they used before
what they do not do is what the
multiculturalists do
say that it is all just a matter of
perceptions that nothing is better or
worse than anything else
multiculturalism is one of those
affectations that people can indulge in
when they are enjoying all the fruits of
modern technology and can grandly
disdain the processes that produced them
none of this would be anything more than
another of the many foibles of the human
race
except that the cult of multiculturalism
has become the new religion of our
schools and colleges contributing to the
mushing of america
it has become part of the unexamined
assumptions underlying public policy and
even decisions in courts of law
who would be surprised that people from
different cultural backgrounds are
represented differently in different
jobs colleges or income levels except
for the unspoken assumption that these
different cultures are equally effective
for all things
yet you need only turn on the television
set and watch professional basketball to
realize that one segment of the
population plays the game a lot better
than others
if you watch the commercials that
sponsor these events you are often
watching ads for beer companies that
were almost invariably established by
people of german ancestry
since germans have been brewing beer
since the days of the roman empire
should we be surprised that they excel
as much in this as blacks excel in
basketball
any standard based on quality will have
over-representation and
under-representation of different groups
however much such disparate impact may
shock the editorial writers and provoke
judges to rush in where angels fear to
tread
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